I love fun headlines.
David Hayward (aka “Naked Pastor”) participated in an interesting publication experiment through the Wikiklesia Project that will benefit the nonprofit organization NOT FOR SALE. He and several others wrote a wiki-book, a community written collaborative work built with wiki-technology. (Boy, do I feel like a geek after that last sentence…)
Here’s an excerpt from the email David sent to his readers:
A breakthrough experiment in Christian Publishing has just taken place. The Wikiklesia Project is an on-line, self-organizing, collaborative, virtual publishing event that has been completed from start to finish in just days.
Voices of the Virtual World: Participative Technology and the Ecclesial Revolution explores the growing influence of technology on the global Christian church. This book includes more than forty influential voices. The book can be ordered via my blog here (http://nakedpastor.com/archives/1265). All profits go to charity.
I had the honor of being invited to write a chapter for the book. It is titled “Virtuality and the Practice of Authenticity”. Here’s a quote:
“With the Internet there is no body language, no voice inflection, no eye contact and no spirit of place to benefit either the writer or the reader. It is blamed for the problem of what we call “virtual realityâ€, the phenomenon of that which is not real but may display the full qualities of the real. There is the possibility that the person online is not the person he or she is in person. The person online is only virtual, seeming to be real, but who’s true self is concealed behind keys, wires, screens and words. I suggest that the problem isn’t the Internet, but that this problem is a human one and a condition of our fallenness that manifests itself in all our relationships.”
David tells me that proceeds will go to NOT FOR SALE, a charity devoted to the elimination of human slavery in our lifetime.
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