After sleeping in about two hours later (to make up for the 2 hours I was up between 2:45am and 4:45), I got up, made a cup of green tea (I’ve been doing Green tea most mornings to cut down on coffee), and wrote a reply to Ken, who had written last night. I ended up doing a bit of blogging (or blog-like writing) in my reply, as I told him about my not getting the job I was all hyped about, and going for another interview today at 4pm, about 30 minutes from here over in Brentwood.
That email did me good. The meat of the “blog-like” part was this:
I saw a quote from Leonard Sweet where he said “We need fewer Church Websites and more Web Ministries”. That’s a good point. The Church needs to be looking more and more like Online culture in the style of its communications, and stop trying to duplicate the brochure approach. It needs to figure out how to take its message and its stories online and engage the online culture. The Pew internet Research report keeps coming up with vast increases in the amount of people searching for spirituality and connectedness online (you probably watch these types things too, since you spent a year or two in St. Louis doing that same kind of research.)
I have often thought how I would find a way to “complete” my DMIn project from 1993-95. I was all the way to the project stage, having done all the preliminary papers with JT Robertson and David Lochhead’s online group. But I would need to find a possible source of funding