Canterbury Tales: A weblog of stories by some of the pilgrims on a journey together at the Uniting Church NSW Synod meeting at Canterbury Park Race Course.
The concept behind this project came out of some post-mortem thinking about the Uniting Church's National Assembly held in 2003. One of the significant issues was communication of events at the Assembly with the wider Uniting Church. Unfortunately, most of the wider church (and members in the Uniting Church) essentially got to hear about what was happening through the public media outlets. This was not particularly helpful when it came to the sexuality debate. One thing that was clear that the Internet was particularly helpful in getting information to the congregations. The idea of the website is to establish an experimental (read unofficial) media outlet that reports on the happenings of the Uniting Church's NSW Synod meeting. Essentially the writers/contributors would be members of Synod. I hope that we might have at least five regular writers/contributors. As the Synod now meets in 'table groups' I would really like to have one writer/contributor per table at Synod. Basically, anyone can contribute. The website will be constructed using a web log (or blog) as a kind of media outlet with a focus on informing people and providing comment/personal reflection on stuff. While the content will mostly be serious it is hoped that satire and humour will also be used to explore the issues. I hope that the website will be more than a publishing/media outlet. I would like to see it become more like a temporary community. The real value of the Internet is to enable people to engage in dialogue. The website will have the capacity for people in the congregations to participate -- to write comment, respond, ask questions, and let us know what the outside world is saying. Hopefully it will make the meeting of Synod more accessible and more connected to the wider community of faith. However, this is an experiment, so we don't know what will happen. It will only work if people actually participate. This years Synod will be meeting at Canterbury Race Course. So with tongue firmly planted in our cheek I have decided to call our weblog the "Canterbury Tales". The website can be found at http://canterbury-tales.unitingchurch.org.au If you would like to participate drop me an email... and I will fill you in with more stuff in the near future. Shalom Dean --- Dean Tregenza http://www.spirited.net.au/ The opinions in this email are not necessarily the opinions or beliefs of the author, the people he quoted... or anyone else for that matter. :-) ------------------------------------------------------ - You are subscribed to the mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the message body 'unsubscribe insights-l' (ell, not one (1)) See: http://nsw.uca.org.au/lists.htm ------------------------------------------------------
