Friday, September 1, 2006

S(h)ame Sins – Novel ways to confess....


I found this article on NY Times very interesting….

With controversies about Church, Vatican and Priest simmering down, a Church has found another way to invite people to confess their goriest sins and darkest secrets. About a month ago, LifeChurch, an evangelical network with nine locations and based in Edmond, Okla., set up mysecret.tv as a forum for people to confess anonymously on the Internet.

The Internet already offers many places to confess, from the dry menu of sins at http://www.absolution-online.com/ to the raunchy exhibitionism at sites like http://www.confessionjunkie.com/ and http://www.grouphug.us/. It is impossible to know whether these stories, like much on the Internet, are sincere or pure fiction.

One of the best-known sites is postsecret.blogspot.com, an extension of an art project in which people write their secrets on postcards and mail them to an address in Germantown, Md.

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