Googling God
A recent New York Times article told of the immense power of the search engine Google. 
Fulfilling the corporation's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" Google has become a verb as it is very common "to Google" someone or something as a way to find out more.
A fun way to see how two things compare in Google is to use the separate website called Googlefight. Enter two search terms to see which has more web pages. For example Googlefighting Jesus vs. Buddha shows Jesus as the winner with a score of 70,600,000 to 13,900,000.
King of Peace googles quite well by the name of the church or even when looking for "Episcopal Church" and "Kingsland" as search terms. Google also sends a lot of folks our way who are looking for information on Anglican Prayer Beads, tying palm crosses, a Pet Funeral, or quite commonly when looking into T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi and other search terms. There's no reason to get a big head about it though as Washington National Cathedral can still stomp us in a Googlefight.
One more online tool. Cathy at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bainbridge taught me to put King of Peace on my personalized Google screen. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/ and follow the directions to create your own personalized Google homepage with news, local weather, local movie times and more. You can add a link to www.kingofpeace.org, but more to the point you can also set it so that Google automatically shows the headings for the three most recent posts to this blog. Go to "add content" then click on "create a section" and add this text to the block for text:
http://kingofpeace.blogspot.com/atom.xml
and Google will keep you updated on Irenic Thoughts every time you visit Google. Or make the personalized Google your homepage and you'll always have the latest Irenic Thoughts close at hand alongside your news and weather, etc.
Given that the Internet is a tool and not in and of itself Good or Evil any more than a shovel or a hammer, it is up to Christians to dot the Internet landscape with safe havens of solid information on how to have and cultivate a relationship with God. What could King of Peace add to its website to enhance its ability to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in cyberspace?
peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor + King of Peace Episcopal Church
Fulfilling the corporation's mission to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" Google has become a verb as it is very common "to Google" someone or something as a way to find out more.A fun way to see how two things compare in Google is to use the separate website called Googlefight. Enter two search terms to see which has more web pages. For example Googlefighting Jesus vs. Buddha shows Jesus as the winner with a score of 70,600,000 to 13,900,000.
King of Peace googles quite well by the name of the church or even when looking for "Episcopal Church" and "Kingsland" as search terms. Google also sends a lot of folks our way who are looking for information on Anglican Prayer Beads, tying palm crosses, a Pet Funeral, or quite commonly when looking into T.S. Eliot's poem The Journey of the Magi and other search terms. There's no reason to get a big head about it though as Washington National Cathedral can still stomp us in a Googlefight.
One more online tool. Cathy at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bainbridge taught me to put King of Peace on my personalized Google screen. Go to http://www.google.com/ig/ and follow the directions to create your own personalized Google homepage with news, local weather, local movie times and more. You can add a link to www.kingofpeace.org, but more to the point you can also set it so that Google automatically shows the headings for the three most recent posts to this blog. Go to "add content" then click on "create a section" and add this text to the block for text:
and Google will keep you updated on Irenic Thoughts every time you visit Google. Or make the personalized Google your homepage and you'll always have the latest Irenic Thoughts close at hand alongside your news and weather, etc.
Given that the Internet is a tool and not in and of itself Good or Evil any more than a shovel or a hammer, it is up to Christians to dot the Internet landscape with safe havens of solid information on how to have and cultivate a relationship with God. What could King of Peace add to its website to enhance its ability to share the Good News of Jesus Christ in cyberspace?
peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor + King of Peace Episcopal Church
posted by King of Peace @ Sunday, November 06, 2005
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