Movable Theoblogical: An interesting WIKI: SourceWatch

This post earlier this morning caused me to think of what it might be like if the Bible (the entire text of it) were put into a blog (as one chapter or section/pericope per post), with some kind of tag for individual verses. I thought of this after seeing the Wiki done by the Center for Media and Democracy which I linked to. The “empty pages” that were offered up to the online community sparked the idea about the Bible, for here, on the CMD wiki, there were opportunities for the users to contribute entries which defined/described the various concepts of the Project for the New American Century

In the same way, the Bible could be discussed and explored, in an almost Midrash style, making “notes” on certain texts as Trackbacks from other blogs. Seminaries should have such a “base Bible blog” to which they could collaboratively enter notes and comments and reflections, and there couold conceivable be different kinds of references (personal, technical, expository, Greek/Hebrew etymology, etc., even Political).

It would be interesting to set up such a Bible Blog, even the process of getting it all into a blog format would be interesting as a theological as well as a technological and programttic enterprise/undertaking. I may be looking into how this mayight be done. I know there are ONLINE BIBLES, but none that are , to my knowledge, in Blog format to lend themselves to trackbacks and comments, and even RSS on those comments and trackbacks (which more and ore blogs are now offering — RSS on comments and trackbacks, that is).

Then I get to thinking about how technologies such as blogging might engender a very different kind of communal record of the history of God’s people. How Paul might have used blogging in relation to his missions and Church seeding. If Paul’s letters could have been interactive, what would that have done to the message of the Epistles? If the Gospels had been so, what would we have there?