Blogs can be a valuable resource in keeping us in touch with CALL..our won, and those of OTHERS. We can tell our story in a very “inobtrusive” way, making it available in narrative, in links to “kindred” sources and “provocative” sources that we feel compelled to use to illustrate and highlight what we’re trying to reveal about our own journey, and our own hopes.

I would LOVE to ba able to feel confident that I could search Google, Yahoo, or (even better) a specialized Church/theological search engine/tool/community that would know what kinds of categories people like us in the Church want to be looking for and searching through.

I would love to able to “subscribe” to the blogs of fellow Church members and friends and “keep up” with what’s happening in their lives. To this day, my younger brother is the only one I know of who FREQUENTLY looks at my blog as a means of “keeping up”. On more than one occasion, I have mentioned something thatIhave just done or thought about, and he has siad “I know, I read that”.

Call me selfish or self-absorbed, but isn’t the Church supposed to be the kind of place that should be EAGER to find ways to get us to “come out of our shell” and express what’s happening in our journey, and explore what God is calling us to do? But even though it is WELL KNOWN that I have this passion for Web Community, and a vision for Church that utilizes ALL of the gifts we have available in online tools, there has been hardly ANY expressed interest in exploring this with me, and often, just the opposite: Hesitancy, oppostion, perceived irrelevance, downright Luddite-like “warnings” about “depersonalization”. Not exactly a Church that is about helping one discover and utilize their gifts. How many OTHER gifts and visions do we SQUELCH, and how many others, awaiting identification and encouragement, remain dormant, unfulfilled, and a source of deep dissatisfaction?