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Here’s the Odyssey interview from day 6:

Here’s the Odyssey interview from day 5:

Here’s the Odyssey interview from day 4:

Here’s the Odyssey interview from Day 3:

Day two:

As promised, I’ll try to add the various interviews with faith leaders that the Odyssey Network is providing into this blog. It’s a great example of being “in the flow” in these days. So here’s Day One:

There has been a lot of fear mongering about email and churches, as well as a lot of utopian imaginings. But here is one of the first very pragmatic pieces I’ve read about the challenges of email in conflict-ridden pastoral situations. Hurray to Alban for putting it out there!

The Odyssey Network is doing something very interesting: planning interviews with myriad religious leaders who will be at the Copenhagen Summit on climate change. Here’s the first introduction. I’ll do my best to post as many of them as I can:

What would it mean to create a platform that enables people who are creating religious resources in their immediate environments, to share them with people all over the world? What might be possible if the editorial control of such a platform was envisioned to be from the grassroots up (via ranking, reviewing and social bookmarking),

“In the flow” surely means something about the increasing rapidity and ease of communicating across geographic distances previously unimagined. For instance, consider this blog written by the Youth Desk of the Lutheran World Federation. How can we be in conversation, in whatever context we live in, with people in widely differing contexts? What’s involved? Can