At the beginning of term we thought about how to intergrate Theology with the internet. The first thing we did was to create a website, each of us wrote our own reflective paragraphs explaining our live and the choices that we have made in our lives. Next we made a twitter feed explaining our lives and how religion fits in. We then looked at other religious websites on the internet such as the Ship of Fools which tries to incorperate humour into religion, it also sells some hilareous gift ideas such as Russian Jesus Monopoly. Another website was the website for the Diocese of Oxford which gave news of the religious world as well as your local area. The last thing that we looked at was Second Life which is an online world where you can hold church services.
I found that virtual attempts to access religion are largely flawed because you can not fully interact, take twitter as an example, you go on there and there is just a list of short statements, I just wouldn't be interested in checking it regularly. The ship of fools is a good attempt because it incorperates humour which makes it more appealing, also it has short video clips, but it is still a one way street. The Diocese of Oxford is a more serious version of the Ship of Fools but is still quite isolating for the reader as they can not contribute. Second life is a good attempt but only really works if you have a microphone because it would take so long to have a conversation if you had to type it all.
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