In this brief clip (about 4 minutes) he points out two things.
1: that you can't really have 'virtual' community. The virtual negates what community is about. He lists four points relating to community:
a. communities have shared historyFor Hipps, only the last of these four has a possibility in virtual terms: it gains future fast, but loses the other three in the process.
b. they have a sense of permanence, which gives history
c. they have proximity: people get together with each other
d. they have a shared imagination of the future.
2: the second life site is, for Hipps, a disembodiment of the Gospel - as were radio and tele-evangelism before it.
I suspect you won't entirely agree with Hipps, and four minutes isn't long for him to make his case, but he's worth considering, all the same.
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I've posted a response to Mr. Hipps here.
Thanks for letting me know about your response, Wilf. It's worth reading for a different point of view.
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