by Doug Hammack | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
We’ve laid a lot of background leading to this concluding post. We’ve seen how the internet is changing knowledge, which in turn, is changing religion. It is a truism that winners write history. Christian history is no exception. Ours is a history written...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
We’ve laid a lot of background leading to this concluding post. We’ve seen how the internet is changing knowledge, which in turn, is changing religion. It is a truism that winners write history. Christian history is no exception. Ours is a history written...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
Knowledge, we’ve been seeing in these posts, is messy. The Church, on the other hand, likes its truth tidy. The Church is out of sync in the post-internet world. No longer is knowledge like a light switch; either on or off; knowledge or not-knowledge. We now...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
As we’ve seen, Wikipedia is working with the newly emerging approach to human knowledge. In the new world, transparency creates credibility. We all know humans get stuff wrong. Acknowledging it up front better reflects the way the world really is. Also,...
by Doug Hammack | Sep 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you missed the last post, go back and have a read. We discussed how both the Christian Church and the Encyclopedia Britannica are built on the same way of thinking about knowledge… and both are in trouble. Wikipedia, on the other hand, is built on a very...
by Doug Hammack | Aug 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
We’ve spent the last several posts thinking together about how the internet is changing our experience of knowledge. Those posts were groundwork to help us think about one of the many momentous changes upon the Christian Church. The instincts we bring to religion are...
