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Kyle Logue’s essay on Christian Web Trends, “4 Reasons Why Church Websites Don’t Attract Visitors“. Kyle pinpoints a number of good things to keep in mind for the work sharing the faith with the outside world. Pay attention! His list includes:

lack of interaction
no easy way to share content
lack of good content
lack of purpose.

One could also quote Reinhold Niebuhr who once said:

“Nothing is so incredible as an answer to an unasked question. One half of the world has regarded the Christian answer to the problem of life and history as “foolishness” because it had no questions for which the Christian revelation was the answer and no longings and hopes that that revelation fulfilled” (The Nature and Destiny of Man, Vol. II. Human Destiny).

Here’s Pope Benedict’s letter for the World Day of Social Communications. There many great things in the document to ponder for our own personal development in the face of Truth, gospel and our brothers and sisters.

On the occasion
of the 45th World Day of Social Communications, I would like to share some
reflections that are motivated by a phenomenon characteristic of our age: the
emergence of the internet as a network for communication. It is an ever more
commonly held opinion that, just as the Industrial Revolution in its day
brought about a profound transformation in society by the modifications it
introduced into the cycles of production and the lives of workers, so today the
radical changes taking place in communications are guiding significant cultural
and social developments. The new technologies are not only changing the way we
communicate, but communication itself, so much so that it could be said that we
are living through a period of vast cultural transformation. This means of
spreading information and knowledge is giving birth to a new way of learning
and thinking, with unprecedented opportunities for establishing relationships
and building fellowship.

Continue reading Pope Benedict on social communications: be truthful and authentic in relationships with God, self & others