Where do you find inspiration? In a house of worship? Or do you find your faith is fed more these days through online media?

In those halcyon days before Covid, most people never heard of podcasts, and almost no one listened to two to three hour conversations on YouTube, Apple, or Spotify. But the pandemic threw all of us into online spaces we didn’t even know existed. Podcasting is big news.

According to Nancy Marshall (also known as The PR Maven) in an article for Forbes magazine, “Nowhere is the podcast more popular than in the United States, which lays claim to the most podcast listeners in the world (over 100 million). The growth in recent years has been astounding. Nearly 80% of Americans over the age of 12 are now aware of podcasts—up more than 30% from a decade ago. Even in 2015, only a minority of Americans considered listening to podcasts in their day-to-day lives. So much has changed in less than a decade.”

Some of those podcasts and online experiences are now devoted to explorations around faith and spirituality. In the progressive space, podcasts like Homebrewed Christianity, (Re)Thinking Faith, Brew Theology, War Machine, Hunger for Wholeness, several from Richard Rohr’s Center for Action and Contemplation, and others are gaining new listeners every day. 

Of course, churches had to respond to the fact that their doors were closed too, and worship streaming became the new norm, with varying degrees of success. But some organizations found a way to deliver high quality worship experiences via Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube.

This event will gather a panel of speakers who have been using new media to talk about and experience faith online. We’ll find out how this has impacted them and their listeners as we open our minds to new ways of being faithful.

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