The Internet as a Means of Grace
Dec 6th, 2007 by Hugh
Melinda Penner described Al Mohler’s talk at GodBlogCon:
Al Mohler spoke about his intellectual loneliness as a child asking the big questions that don’t seem to come up often in church, even though they’re well within the intellectual heritage of Christianity. He was rather odd. And I think a lot of us in our congregations who think about some of these questions we talk about at STR have felt lonely at times because it doesn’t seem like too many other people around us are thinking along the same lines. They have different interests. That’s why the Body is so important and that’s the beauty of the internet and blogs because it allows to connect beyond our physical boundaries.
This reminded me of the following quote from Harry Blamires’ The Christian Mind, which is featured on Keith Plummer’s blog banner:
If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem—the loneliness of the thinking Christian.
I’ve written before about the web rotting the mind. This reminds me that for all its downside, the Internet can be a means of grace too.
