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August 06, 2005
Godcast?
According to the SMH, the Poms are using their iPods for something different:
The podcast is becoming the Godcast. In a phenomenon that has amazed the clergy, thousands of British worshippers are using their iPods to listen to sermons.Maybe I should suggest this to The Gray Monk who is trying to raise money for the restoration of Tewkesbury Abbey. Maybe the Monk could raise money via his own Godcasts....
While most people use the trendy portable music players to download their favourite pop tunes from the internet, many are adding a spiritual element to their play lists.
The Reverend Leonard Payne, a vicar in Suffolk, has been overwhelmed by the response after he posted some of his homilies on the Apple iTune store last month. "We were stunned," he said.
"Within a short period of time, over 2400 people had downloaded one of the sermons. The volume was so great we had to change servers and, in the last five days of July, over 230 copies of our talks have been delivered - an incredible reaction to the work of a small rural congregation."
Mr Payne said his church was the first in England to be able to place the sermons on iTunes, the online music store. The vicar of St Nicholas in Wrentham, Mr Payne is one of a number of Anglican and Catholic clergy who are harnessing technology to reach the young.
Posted by Ozguru at August 6, 2005 01:00 AM
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