Comments on: Transitioning in A Global Information Age: Questions For Church Traditions http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/ Current Blog Project: Six Months With a Quaker Preacher Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:46:36 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: A Year With Gathering In Light 2007 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-65908 A Year With Gathering In Light 2007 Tue, 01 Jan 2008 03:30:13 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/#comment-65908 [...] Transitioning in A Global Information Age: Questions For Church Traditions [...] [...] Transitioning in A Global Information Age: Questions For Church Traditions [...]

]]> By: gathering | inlight.com - » Online Communities and Radical Reformation Perspectives http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-22316 gathering | inlight.com - » Online Communities and Radical Reformation Perspectives Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:24:49 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/#comment-22316 [...] for a couple reasons. First it shows that the Anabaptists are also asking questions about the global information culture and implications for the church. And second, Ryan interviewed me and used some of our conversation [...] [...] for a couple reasons. First it shows that the Anabaptists are also asking questions about the global information culture and implications for the church. And second, Ryan interviewed me and used some of our conversation [...]

]]> By: David Male http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-22202 David Male Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:23:49 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/#comment-22202 Believe it or not, Ohio Yearly Meeting has been experimenting with ways to use the internet among other tools to maintain a sense of community among a geographically dispersed group of Friends. In our YM, answering queries is an important part of our business meetings. Some Friends living at a distance from their monthly meeting share their thoughts on a query via e-mail so it can be considered with the others during business meeting, and they receive the summary of the discussion in return. We have talked about developing some new queries specifically addressing the needs and concerns of Friends at a distance, but not much fruit has come of that yet. Our yearly meeting website has become a place where seekers find us and begin to have a relationship with us via e-mail. Sometimes I wonder if Ohio Yearly Meeting will end up being the first virtual yearly meeting, as resident Friends become fewer and older and new members come to us from all over the world because of their attraction to what they perceive to be our adherence to classic or primitive quakerism. I guess I feel blessed to be in the middle. I have had the irreplaceable privelage of sitting at the knee of some of the wise old quaker ministers and elders whose families have worshipped and lived the Quaker faith for many generations in much the same way, yet I live in a world that is vastly different in many ways than the mostly rural communities of Ohio Yearly Meeting. Worshipping with them, visiting them in their homes, traveling with them in the service of the Lord, experiencing first hand how their constant attention to the movement of the Holy Spirit informs everything they do and say, these are gifts that will not be easily shared in our post-modern world via internet or any other means. Yet we must try to do so, and if we are faithful, God will show us how to love one another in that which is eternal no matter how far and wide he scatters us. Believe it or not, Ohio Yearly Meeting has been experimenting with ways to use the internet among other tools to maintain a sense of community among a geographically dispersed group of Friends. In our YM, answering queries is an important part of our business meetings. Some Friends living at a distance from their monthly meeting share their thoughts on a query via e-mail so it can be considered with the others during business meeting, and they receive the summary of the discussion in return. We have talked about developing some new queries specifically addressing the needs and concerns of Friends at a distance, but not much fruit has come of that yet. Our yearly meeting website has become a place where seekers find us and begin to have a relationship with us via e-mail.

Sometimes I wonder if Ohio Yearly Meeting will end up being the first virtual yearly meeting, as resident Friends become fewer and older and new members come to us from all over the world because of their attraction to what they perceive to be our adherence to classic or primitive quakerism.

I guess I feel blessed to be in the middle. I have had the irreplaceable privelage of sitting at the knee of some of the wise old quaker ministers and elders whose families have worshipped and lived the Quaker faith for many generations in much the same way, yet I live in a world that is vastly different in many ways than the mostly rural communities of Ohio Yearly Meeting. Worshipping with them, visiting them in their homes, traveling with them in the service of the Lord, experiencing first hand how their constant attention to the movement of the Holy Spirit informs everything they do and say, these are gifts that will not be easily shared in our post-modern world via internet or any other means.

Yet we must try to do so, and if we are faithful, God will show us how to love one another in that which is eternal no matter how far and wide he scatters us.

]]> By: gathering | inlight.com - » Winds of the Spirit: Convergent Friends Workshop (Providence 2007) http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-22178 gathering | inlight.com - » Winds of the Spirit: Convergent Friends Workshop (Providence 2007) Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:50:47 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/#comment-22178 [...] questions definately touched on some of the issues I recently considered in an article about the global information culture.  And we assured the people there that the web is a vehicle for the conversation, that we are [...] [...] questions definately touched on some of the issues I recently considered in an article about the global information culture.  And we assured the people there that the web is a vehicle for the conversation, that we are [...]

]]> By: gathering | inlight.com - » I am Heading (Providence) Rhode Island: FWCC Convergent Friends Conference http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/comment-page-1/#comment-21889 gathering | inlight.com - » I am Heading (Providence) Rhode Island: FWCC Convergent Friends Conference Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:51:33 +0000 http://gatheringinlight.com/2007/03/11/transitioning-in-a-global-information-age-questions-for-church-traditions/#comment-21889 [...] this I have learned a lot about fleshing out ideas over long distance and have seen how some of the ways of relating that I spoke of the other day work themselves out in real-life. (You can download the handout we’ve created [...] [...] this I have learned a lot about fleshing out ideas over long distance and have seen how some of the ways of relating that I spoke of the other day work themselves out in real-life. (You can download the handout we’ve created [...]

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