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Letters to AO

EVERY WEEK WE PUBLISH a selection of letters we receive in response to something you've read at Anglicans Online. Stop by and have a look at what other AO readers are thinking.

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Letters from 31 December 2007 to 6 January 2008

Like all letters to the editor everywhere, these letters are the opinions of the writers and not Anglicans Online. We publish letters that we think will be of interest to our readers, whether we agree with them or not. If you'd like to write a letter of your own, click here.

Pledges sancta Dei?

Your editorial made me laugh. This is especially true when I think of my home parish, where conversation about attracting young people brought the comment, "Young people don't pledge."

Judy Fleener
St. Paul's Church, Muskegon
New Era, Michigan, USA
jfleener@charter.net
1 January 2008

Mixed media

I lead the Anglican ministry in the virtual world of Second Life. We presently offer 5 services and a Bible Study a week in a virtual Anglican Cathedral. Our aim is two-fold, provide a church community to the more than 1 million members actively involved in Second Life from around the world; and leverage this new, emerging virtual internet technology to further the churches aims.

I was heartened to read in your most recent article:

"Seeing those young women watching their mobile-phone video made us understand that the delay by organized Anglicanism in responsible use of current communications media has now actually become its denial."

And then a little confused as to why your lead piece on the 2nd of December, on our fledgling ministry within the virtual world would be so damning and dismissive?

Like AO, we are keen to encourage the Anglican church to take the internet seriously, including the new emerging platforms such as the virtual. My hope is that we could somehow work together in this, and that future opinion pieces on our virtual ministry would be more balanced and fair..

For more information on the Anglican ministry in Second Life see: http://slangcath.wordpress.com/

Mark Brown
St Paul's Cathedral and The Anglican Cathedral of Second Life
Wellington, New Zealand
mbrownsky@hotmail.com
5 January 2008

(Ed. note: Second Life isn't a medium.)

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