It seems the guys at SCM liked my presentation, as one of them asked me to come up to Sydney to talk to people in their ministry project. Very exciting for me; it means I’m on the right track.
Phil and Cheryl met all my (quite high) expectations of them in their seminars on Northern Community CoC/signposts.org.au and Virtual Worship. Great stuff. I think the three of us got the message across that virtual church will never really be, despite experiences of many who have been marginalised by class, geography, disability, age etc., a replacement of offline church, but will be a pointer to how the offline church has to change, and where to move.
Given it was received so well, I’ll use most of what I had prepared in a paper for the AoIR conference in Brisbane in September. That means I’ll write iyt up and post it here if you’re interested.
Cheryl and Phil, please do the same on your sites. I’d appreciate it.
Now I’m off to the International Thingy on Media, Religion and Culture in Sigtuna. Have blog, will travel.
List of most-used words shows we’ve plenty of time June 23, 2006 http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19560337-29677,00.html
LONDON: Time is the most commonly used noun in the English language, the publishers of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary have revealed.
The most popular word overall is the, followed by be, to, of, and, a, in, that, have and I.
On the list of the top 25 nouns, time is followed by other indicators of the movement of the clock: year is in third place, day is at No5 and week at No17. The compilers used the Oxford English Corpus – a research project into English in the 21st century – to come up with the lists.
Much of our time seems to be spent on our jobs, according to the compilers, who placed the word work at No16 on the nouns list. Money, however, features at a lowly 65, although problems is at 24 – with solution nowhere in sight.
The words play and rest do not rate among the top nouns.
Among the nouns, the word person is at No2, with man at No7 and woman at 14.
Child appears at No12. Government appears at No20 while war, at 49, trumps peace, which does not feature in the top 100.
The top 25 are: time, person, year, way, day, thing, man, world, life, hand, part, child, eye, woman, place, work, week, case, point, government, company, number, group, problem and fact.
Some of us bloggers seem to be finding ourselves at the Australian Student Christian Movement Victoria’s conference this Thursday coming. The conference theme is “Virtual Church”. I’ll be talking about some of my research, Phil McCreddon will be talking about NCCC and signposts.org.au and Cheryl Lawrie will be exploring virtual worship and virtual care.
For details, go here. ASCM have always been a cool bunch of people, socially active, very discerning and always have great questions. I’m nervous as this will be the first time in a while I’ve presented stuff about my PhD outside uni.
