Let's begin again....

I am feeling a little sheepish and apparently a little pauline today. I wrote a little while ago about the importance of keeping up a blog or webpage once you created it. Apparently this is easier said than done - or at least for me.

This leads me to Paul: Romans 7:15

"I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want,

but I do the very thing I hate." (NRSV)

So apparently I am not unlike Paul - I want to blog regularly and I am annoyed by those who set up expectations and then disappoint me by disappearing from the blogosphere. So what is one to do?

I guess all I can do is the Christian thing: ask for forgiveness and begin again. That is what I love about my faith, there are always opportunities to take stock, realize your errors, acknowledge them and begin again. In this "ordinary time" in the church year, I am doing that most ordinary and yet extra-ordinary thing: repenting and beginning again.

(P.S. I am about to go on holidays - so I may need to repeat this post again...and maybe again)

Playing with Wordle

The above is a wordle based on this blog - pretty cool hey??? Try it out at www.wordle.net

The Church 2.0

I am reading about the Church and Twitter at Time: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1895463,00.html

I am intrigued by this use of Twitter in worship. What happens when the Church becomes the Church 2.0? What happens when people can talk back during worship?

Will twittering help the Church to be more responsive? It certainly has the potential to radically change how we imagine Church. The Church is systemically hierarchical and new social media may have the potential to deconstruct that hierarchy. When people have the capacity and the invitation to participate at all levels of the Church, then a radical new community may indeed be born.

People may begin to expect to have a voice in places where they have traditionally be silent. The Church 2.0 would be an interactive Church where everyone has the potential to participate and all voices may be heard. It would not be a fixed unchanging entity but rather one that each person contributes to and "edits", for the building up of the whole community. In the Church 2.0 the Word is not static - the Word is living.

Time also has an article on how Twitter will change the way we live: http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1902604,00.html

Maybe they have a point - maybe this Twitter thing isn't just a new fad, maybe it is a radical new way being....