During my breakout session yesterday, on the topic in the title of this post, I focused the conversation on blogging and social networking as theological acts and sources. I also discussed how they fit within a process worldview.
Here were some of the theological topics that arose in the discussion:
- Open-ended, adventurous, and egalitarian
- There is a challenge to keeping up with all the changes -- is this a distraction from other things?
- Sharing your stories and reflecting upon them and watching your story develop over time (both individual and community)
- Being present -- presence is not limited to physical location
- Danger of creating a community within the community
- Does it violate our ministerial boundaries, or
- Does it reveal that this is a mistaken notion, that we should live openly without a facade or division beween our private and professional lives?
- Does it further reveal that private lives are a mistaken notion anyway, because, according to process thought, our identities are constituted by our relations with others?
- Then we were warned that maybe this question was coming from the place of white, male privilege. Do non-privileged people sometimes need privacy and boundaries, particularly abuse victims?
Do you have any thoughts or ideas?
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