Theology After Google

All right, what can we do?

Theology after Google is about what you do, not about passively reading stuff. So here's what I hope:

• I hope you'll comment on this post. Take a minute to write a sentence or two of response. I am equally intrigued by disagreements as about agreements. Participate! That's what counts. The rest is merely listening, a kind of theological voyeurism.

• Talk about these issues with friends. Blog and post on your own. If you go to a church, talk with church leaders about theology after Google. Set up a discussion group in your home or some other venue. Theology after Google (Church 2.0) is a network of networks. Every group and every network counts.

• Come to the big "Theology after Google" conference and celebration on March 10-12 at Claremont School of Theology, about 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Check it out at TransformingTheology.org. You can do two and a half days for as little as $99, and you can stay in the area for as little as $40 a night. Interact with Tony Jones, Spencer Burke, John Franke, Adam Walker Cleveland, Bob Cornwall, Dwight Friesen, Jon Irvine, Glen Stassen, Tripp Fuller, and other speakers. Participate in the workshops. Let your voice be heard, and thereby change what other people take home. Be transformed by what you hear, and then "go thou and do likewise"!

This article first appeared at TheOoze.com and is reprinted with permission from the author.

Philip Clayton is Professor of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and head of the TransformingTheology.org project. He made the journey from conservative evangelical to liberal before staking his tent with the emergent church. His most recent books are Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action and Transforming Christian Theology. He blogs at Clayton's Emergings.