And Your Response Is...
I am sitting on a few issues right now, but really had the thought in my head of asking us to conduct a multifaceted discussion on "the intersetion of faith and mobile technology."
The first part comes from a question that is placed at the MMM channel at Jaiku:
The first part comes from a question that is placed at the MMM channel at Jaiku:
How can mobile technology be improved for your faith endavors?The second item comes from the OLPC side of things, and something that I posted in response to a post addressing its possible inroads at Gear Diary:
I really like the idea of using technology as a means to open the door of education to developing and developed nations alike. I've personally been pushing for churches and missions organizations to get behind the idea of the Give One Get One project because it takes the idea of missions from being an aspect of "just sharing faith" to "sharing faith in word, but also giving an action to associate with it."Where is our response as a Body of believers, and how much more should we be doing to address both of these?
The key thing is that one must realize that there is no "one stop" solution to mitigating the issues that plague developing and developed nations. As long as there is ego, there will always be a case of the lower class having to fight for the same opportunities that upper class peoples and nations get. The question lies though of us that have: do we really beleive that we are better without making someone else's life better, or is humanity at its best when we give a part of ourselves to help those that have no voice of their own.
posted by Antoine @ 11/19/2007 12:02:00 AM
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Over at OLPC News we've looked at religion + OLPC in several ways: as an e-Bible reader: http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/bible-thumping_child_village.html
and as a way to promote local religious culture: http://www.olpcnews.com/use_cases/community/jesuits_olpc_laptop_education.html
Thanks for the links Wayan; I'll be sure to get caught up towards what's already been discussed.
After reading both articles, I do have to admit merit to their thought, but I differ on the approach, or the viewpoint, that cultures should be "thumped" with Bibles via tech. If anything, Christians should be able to be Christian and teach/enable cultures they engage to make that decsion to follow Christ for themselves.
If you will, going into any mission situation, we have to take the perspective that the Lord's reputation is at steak. We cannot thump anyone and expect any evangelism to be effective. In the same vein, it would be silly to look at the need for quality, and time appropiate educational tools and not use them. I'm not sure that the two are really mutually exclusive, and at the same time, I wasn't won to Christ because of a convincing argument, but through being given enough information to make an intelligent and faithful descion.
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