Tuesday, April 14, 2009

What would Jesus tweet?

Trinity Wall Street performs virtual passion play on Twitter
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, April 14, 2009 [Episcopal News Service]

For centuries Christians have re-enacted Christ's death in venues ranging from country churches and outdoor stages to vast cathedrals and concert halls, but perhaps never in the virtual world of social networking. That is, until this past Good Friday, when Trinity Church Wall Street in New York "tweeted" a Passion Play between noon and three o'clock on the social-networking and microblogging site called Twitter.

Twitter allows people to transmit, or "tweet," 140-character messages so that their friends and others who sign up to "follow" them can be updated on their whereabouts, activities and thoughts.

Read the rest of the interesting article here.

1 comment:

Rev. Kurt Huber said...

On a separate note, you can find Jesus' facebook page here:

http://tinyurl.com/cvpvfv