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About Mitali Perkins

Mitali Perkins is the author of Ambassador Families: Equipping Your Kids to Engage Popular Culture (Brazos Press). She studied Political Science at Stanford University and Public Policy at U.C. Berkeley, and has written for Christianity Today, Discipleship Journal, Campus Life, With, Prism, War Cry, U.S. Catholic, and other periodicals. Mitali also writes fiction for young readers, including Monsoon Summer (Random House), The Not-So-Star-Spangled Life of Sunita Sen (Little Brown), Rickshaw Girl (Charlesbridge), and the First Daughter books (Dutton). She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and twin sons.

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Monday, April 09, 2007

GodTube and Conservapedia

GodTube (the YouTube Christian alternative) and Conservapedia (the evangelical version of Wikipedia) have been making the news. I understand the motives behind the creation of these kinds of sites, but worry that (a) pop culture is defining the church once again instead of vice a versa, and (b) Christians are pulling out of two of the most popular communally-created sites on the web instead of staying put to represent Jesus. What do you think?
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billygager
4/11/2007 11:39 PM
I think engaging our world in a humble and intentional way is the best thing we can do for Jesus. In some cases we may need to create Christian alternatives, and I do not put down GodTube, etc., but what message do we send to others if we purposely exclude them because they believe differently?
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coffee_chica
4/9/2007 2:21 PM
Why can't there be both kind of outlets?

As a consumer/reader/viewer, I enjoy having many online options. Just because a site is more "specialized" doesn't bother me. Same way with shopping. Is it okay that there are health food stores? Yes. Should all organic or natural food products be sold only in giant supermarkets? No. Choices are great for consumers, and the assortment at a speciality shop can help us find exactly what we're looking for that much faster.

But back to the tubes ... Christians can be influential in all settings - whether it be secular with entertainment-oriented purposes (YouTube) or Christian with entertainment AND outreach purposes (GodTube).

By and large, if someone comes to know Christ through the efforts of GodTube OR YouTube, isn't that a good thing? God can use anyone and anything to further His Kingdom.







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