Online Community seems to be perceived as some sort of demonic, impersonal,  dangerous abberation of “real community” by many Church people.    I’ve heard the term “dangerous” used in response to thinhgs I have said that suggested that online communication holds promise for furthering the spread of community in ftf communities.  It seems to be a lingering suspicion that the discussions we had online about the way our church staff handled the first Sunday morning service after Sept. 11 were somehow damaging,  even though everyone with email was invited to them,  and it seemed such an obvious tiopic,  since there were scores of groups huddled about immediately after the service,  expressing concern about the omission of the usual “sharing time” after the sermon.