A novel way to spread the Word:
Chris Juby has set himself a task of truly biblical proportions: to summarize the 800,000-plus words in the Old and New Testaments in a series of snappy daily tweets.Juby, a freelance Web designer and director of worship at King's Church in the northern English city of Durham, plans to condense one Bible chapter a day down to 140 characters or less -- the maximum allowed for a single Twitter post.
I remember awhile back being asked, "How do you tweet the Gospel?" My immediate response was "You don't." My thinking was an application of Marshall McLuhan's dictum "The medium is the message."
Maybe I was right, maybe I was wrong. At any rate, Twitter has evolved over time and some consider it to be a definite part of the communicative array today. But is Twitter serious enough for the Word? Is the Word banal enough for Twitter?
How much can you write in 140 characters without falling into the trap of making it seem like some sort of weird oracle, like the one's people use on facebook "XYZ received a prophetic word" (some random algorithm spitting out verses). Creativity I guess is the name of the game.
Although I don't tend to take too seriously apocalyptic declarations that we are entering a post-literate era, Twitter (and the popularity of Twilight) is almost enough to convince me.
Most of the tweets I find most interesting have links to longer articles. In that sense, Twitter is very useful as a sort of clearing house of longer, more thought-out writing.
And of course now I can't resist posting this
http://www.theonion.com/articles/twitter-creator-on-iran-i-never-intended-for-twitt,6783/