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“Church” Slow and Dead: Inviting Christianity into the Age of Google Philip Clayton Claremont School of Theology March 10, 2010

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“Church” ≠ Slow and Dead:

Inviting Christianityinto the Age of Google

Philip ClaytonClaremont School of Theology

March 10, 2010

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Then… and Now…•

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How big is Google?

Google runs over one million servers in data centers around the world, and processes over one billion search requests and twenty petabytes of user-generated data every day… Alexa lists Google as the Internet's most visited website.Google is also Fortune Magazine's fourth best place to work, and BrandZ's most powerful brand in the world.

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What is the Google zeitgeist?

"Zeitgeist" means "the spirit of the times", and Google reveals this spirit through the aggregation of millions of search queries we receive every day. We have several tools that give insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. These tools are available for you to play with, explore, and learn from. Use them for everything from business research to trivia answers.

Take a look inside the world of search • Google Trends - For a broad look at search query data, enter up to five

search terms to see relative popularity over time. • Trends for Websites - Google Trends for website traffic data. Type in a

website address to see visitors by region and related sites visited. • Insights for Search - A deeper dive into search query data for

marketers and power users. Create your own lists of "most popular" and "fastest rising" queries for different geographic regions over time and by topic.

• Hot Trends - The top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now (U.S. only). Updates throughout the day.

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Facebook stats…

• More than 400 million active users

• 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day

• More than 35 million users update their status each day

• More than 60 million status updates posted each day

• More than 3 billion photos uploaded to the site each month

• More than 5 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes,

photo albums, etc.) shared each week

• More than 3.5 million events created each month

• More than 3 million active Pages on Facebook

• More than 20 million people become fans of Pages each day

• Pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans

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Beliefnet.com…

“Your Trusted Source for Free Daily

Inspiration & Faith”

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Tell a Story

Connect a Tribe

Lead a Movement

Make Change

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Belong

Behave

Belong

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Where have we gotten to?

• It’s been a time of decline of the mainline churches and progressive Christian organizations

• Many of these are linked to pre-1960s culture. They convey info in the Gutenberg mode

• “Google” is a metaphor for new modes of living & communicating. (We are not evangelizing google)

• Core concepts from the new technologies open up new vista for talking about church and theology today. LET’S EXPLORE IT!!!

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Core principles of “Beta theologies”

• Try it and see if it works…• Let users make it better• “Wiki” it …• Experiment!• Christian community gets exciting when the

safety provided by the old cultural authorities is no longer there.

• Now you really know you need grace!

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1. Theology is not something you consume, but something you produce

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2. No institutions, and very few persons, function as authorities for theology after

Google

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3. Theology after Google is not centralized and localized. Likewise, the church cannot be localized in a single

building. We find church in the most surprising places

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4. The new Christian leader is a host, not an authority who dispenses true teaching, wise

words, and the sole path to salvation.

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5. Theology after Google does not divide up the world between the “sacred” and the “secular,” as past theologies so often did. All thought and experience bears on

it, and all of one’s life manifests it. All of one’s life as a Christian is missional.

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The Old Logic

1. John Franke is an evangelical.2. Philip Clayton is a progressive Christian.3. Therefore…4. they will be saying completely different

things. They will not like each other; they will not understand each each; they will have trouble sharing in one mission and acknowledging the one church.

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The New Logic…

Look at what’s happening here. Tonight. This week.

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Theology After Google…

LearnParticipate

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