Prayer in the blogosphere...

Amazing some of the Web's dichotomies -- a system that has tremendous potential to alienate and dehumanize also provides opportunity for deep human connection and also for spiritual edification and even practice.

I recall reading and hearing several discussions lately about the pursuit of spirituality online and the working of sacred time into a seemingly secular venue like the Web. (There might have been some discussion of this in the Open Source "God 2.0" podcast I linked to a while back. In any case, following on that theme, Steve Bogners has linked to an online retreat offered by Creighton University's Collaborative Ministry office.

Steve writes:

Instead of doing this retreat on my own, I want to open it up and invite everyone else to join me. I'll provide the online space for everyone to write & share experiences, via this blog or another one. You don't have to be a Catholic Christian to sign-up for this online retreat; there's nothing really exclusively Catholic about it. So please don't let that be a barrier. Actually, there's no sign-up at all; no cost; no penalties to join late or leave early.