{"id":6436,"date":"2010-03-02T13:28:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6436"},"modified":"2010-03-02T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:31:01","slug":"sean-says-its-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6436","title":{"rendered":"Sean says it’s a revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few minutes ago, I was talking with Sean of the blog Ministrare<\/a> — he’s here at the Palo Alto church while Amy, our senior minister,<\/a> is on sabbatical — and he showed me a video that he likes. He put the video up on his blog, and I’ll embed it here, so you can watch it, too:<\/p>\n

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Over on his blog, Sean says that he believes we religious liberals are not ready for the social media revolution. I think Sean is mostly right.<\/p>\n

But I can find some bright spots, places where we do use social media well. Here in Palo Alto, we’ve been piloting a podcast for Sunday school teachers, and the teachers tell us they love this venture into online learning. And although I write my blog on my own time, I find that some people in the congregation do read it, and what I have written here has sparked some very interesting conversations in the face-to-face congregation. When we do<\/em> use social media, what we do online strengthens and reinforces what happens in our face-to-face congregation.<\/p>\n

So I’m ready to embrace the social media revolution. I think it will make congregational life that much better. What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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