Virtual Cathedral

The maasively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMPORG) Second Life has its own Anglican Cathedral on Epiphany Island with 5 services a week. The virtual community's virtual church had the recent sermon Six Steps to an Amazing Christian Walk. Funded a little over a year ago by Bill Sowers, a member of St David's Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Kansas, the church has planted their church in the virtual world with 9.7 million members around the actual world. As they tell their history, "From March through to May 07 the Cathedral was built and as it took shape we realised this was going to be something special, something exceptional."

Their website is online here: The Anglican Church in Second Life. You can see scenes from the December 2nd worship here: online worship. View the cathedral below:



While I still feel that the incarnation is not virtual reality (see the post Incarnation vs. Cyberspace) and has to involve real people getting together, I am intrigued by the way Anglicans have found to join together in cyberspace for some very real ministry in a virtual location. Unfortunately, I barely have time for my first life. ;-)

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Note:
In the real world, I have an exhibit of photos in the Coastal Camden Art Gallery in the former Sterling's Restaurant on Osborne Road in St. Marys. Titled Found Artifacts, the exhibit consists of 18 hand-printed fine art photographs from the trip I made to Italy and France earlier this year with my wife and daughter.