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:: Monday, April 22, 2002 ::

Editing day. Today is my editing day, but I've done precious little of it. The news releases and alumni magazine articles are clogging the que, awaiting my virtual red ink. But where do I go? I go to the blogs.

Welcome to the blogosphere. That's what this Washington Post article calls our "rapidly expanding universe where legions of ordinary folks are launching Weblogs -- blogs for short -- with such titles as 'Ramblings of a Blue-Collar Slob' and 'The Brigade of Bellicose Women' -- that feature lots of reader feedback."

Welcome to the postmodern laboratory. I've been thinking long and hard about the Internet and its role in ministry as part of my preparation for Search Party 2002, when I remembered an article I'd read about the Net being a great big laboratory for the postmodern experiment. Adrian Mihilache, the article's author, points out that:

The main figures of cyberspace -- the cyber-surfer who explores the Web, the cyber-smith who builds up its places and founds its institutional sites, and the cyber-evangelist who promotes ideas, invites attention, and lures passers-by -- are no longer the stable, coherent and rational selves of the Modern School, but the petulant, playful, multicentered, disembodied 'spirits' of postmodernism. They do not recognize such thing as 'universal truth' and reject the belief that reason and science offer a stable foundation for knowledge and ethical behavior.

Hmmm. What do you think of that? Drop me a line with your thoughts.

:: Andrew 10:32 + ::
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