Law examines opportunities for Christians through social media

By Rachel Pritchett, communicator

EVERETT — The Rev. Dr. Erik H.F. Law, executive director of the Kaleidoscope Institute, said at an April 8-9 conference on Christianity and social media that Christians must network globally but connect locally.
"In a few years, there will be a hunger for human touch," he said.
He challenged listeners at Trinity Lutheran College to find ways to translate the vast amount of information being flung at them through social media to building real relationship, unplugged. It might be as simple as taking YouTube video and discussing Christian interpretations in a group.
"There is so much you can do with what is there," he said. "The invitation is for you to see where you are in this."
Law has a new blog, "The Sustainist," at http://ehflaw.typepad.com/blog/. It's really interesting.
Another speaker, the Rev. Douglas Jones, who teaches writing and literature through Veritas Press Scholars Academy, said Christianity in America tends toward three traits — individualism, sentimentalism and Gnosticism, the doctrine of salvation through knowledge.
He urged Christians, when discovering ways to use social media for Christians, to avoid those paths, to use social media to discover Christian communities elsewhere in the world who have.