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sharing faith digitally in the 21st century reimagining faith formation 27 august 2016 australia

a few caveats… • situatedness • limited focus • hoping to enter a conversation with you!

big idea in faith sharing in digital cultures: TRUST GOD

but how? and why?

it’s all about story…

“dances up the ladder from information to knowledge to wisdom”

“a great story invites an expansion of understanding, a self transcendence…”

“more than that, it plants a seed which makes it impossible to do anything but grow in understanding…”

there are stories all around us…

competition? or apprenticeship?

wonder with me about story spaces that are digital

a paradox exists: the public performance of hatred and an unprecedented opportunity to experience freedom are both present in digital cultures Michael Wesch

self enclosed stories?

expansive, connected stories?

how might we climb up the ladder, and help to practice knowledge that might lead to wisdom in our stories? where are we doing that already?

six kinds of narrative pedagogies can help us • religious literacy • personal vitality • contemplative encounter • critical reflection • creative vitality • empowering social transformation Rogers

believe create share

five practices for living in the tragic gap • an understanding that we are all in this together • an appreciation of the value of otherness • an ability to hold tension in life-giving ways • a sense of personal voice and agency • a capacity to create community Parker Palmer

let’s explore a bit with each other… let’s try some “what ifs?”

what if God is all around us, communicating with us even — perhaps mostly! — in the midst of digital cultures?

what if …. try reading this commercial through your theological lenses

turn to your neighbor and see if you can find a way to talk about an “and” move as you think about what it means to be Christian… what would an “and” move look like if we were using Christian stories to talk about it?

four dynamics we’re learning from games • urgent optimism • weaving a tight social fabric • blissful productivity (optimized to do hard meaningful work) • epic meaning Jane McGonigal

what if we could use social media to weave a more tight social fabric? what could that look like?

turn to your neighbor and talk about something you’ve encountered via social media that has helped to shape your sense of the social fabric

what if we could find ways to enter digital culture that create and draw upon blissful productivity?

turn to your neighbor and share a story about a time when you found yourself being blissfully productive… (doesn’t have to be in church!)

we need to work on sharing our stories, and digital culture invites us to do so in myriad ways

our religious communities need to share stories that claim experiences which we don’t otherwise have language for, and have to help us find a moral compass in doing so

joy, mercy, forgiveness

sin, sorrow, repentance

hope

how will we “story” ourselves and the church? how will we invite people into epic meaning-making adventures?

we also need stories that transform our perspectives, that reframe our taken-for-granted views, that help us to “re-contextualize” in the face of context collapse

creation tools • tackk.com • animoto.com • story corps app • adobe spark app • magisto app • iMovie at Apple

sharing tools • youtube.com • vimeo.com • slideshare.com • storify.com • snapchat • instagram • and so many more…!

so now we have tools to use, and metaphors to play with, how do we elicit stories? how do we listen carefully?

storytelling resources • storyingfaith.org • digital storytelling wiki • art of hosting • liberating structures • public conversations project • respectful conversations project

storying faith believe • keep in mind the mystery of the Trinity • stories need encouragement to emerge • working on creating stories supports faith formation create share • reach out to learn, to hear stories that are not your typical stories

Q & A

image and photo credits (underlined citations are urls) Mr. robot image Orphan Black image Dead pool image CEDA model (Julian Stodd) anglican “in” language complimentary rules cartoon denominational purity Banksy stained glass window hands earth joy (diana robinson) forgiveness (len matthews) may my soul note rest (eperales) repentance (vince42) hope tree (hartwig hkd) peace dove (stuart williams) trinity circle (action bronson) all other photos and images by mary hess

video credits future of storytelling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjoO6Y29f7I) be together not the same (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-oCSoI9OQ) racism is real (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcSVQJ2h8g) apple: the song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsPnzcZ1VY) the Syrophoenician woman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAl--5UKaPc) an unexpected Christmas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1XusYVqNY) poetry slam quarter finals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv00xjClbx0) “cuz he’s black” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Wf8y_5Yn4)

more info: mary hess meh.religioused.org