Digimission

I’m heading home from the Digimission event. Pretty tired, to put it mildly, but it has been a good day. Jonny Baker and Maggi Dawn were especially helpful, I thought. I appreciated the realism of the day. That was little of the gushing “IT is the answer — now what’s the question” that you sometimes find. Instead we had some serious attempts to think about what impact the digital revolution will have on the church and its mission.

Shane Hipps (by slightly stuttery* video link from Arizona) invited us to consider Marshall McLuhan’s best-remembered slogan that “the medium is the message” and how it impacts on our use of the internet. Those of us who booked early were given a copy of his book Flickering Pixels: How Technology Shapes Your Faith and a quick glance just now suggests it will be a profitable read.

As always with these events, the best bit of the day was not the speakers (though they were good) but the meeting of new friends. Special shout-out to Johnny Laird with thanks for his company.

Props to the good folk at the Evangelical Alliance for organizing the day. The arrangements for the day were very slickly done, there was a good luncheon (always a bonus!) and the technology worked with very few hitches*. Beyond doubt, a good and useful day.

Gripes? There has to be something. The venue was very cold. I mean like, shiveringly so. I was glad to have an extra jumper with me. Oh, and those of us who took part in the digimission synchroblog had our blogposts distributed with the day’s agenda (fame at last, Olive!), but mine was the only one not credited with a url. Shouldn’t grumble — it was probably my fault for posting it late.

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