Jared,

This was a great response to my original question. My tardiness in responding shows that even those of us who believe in internet community as a way of enriching our life don't take this as seriously as our offline community responsibilities. This from a web developer, even.

<Why is it that the vocal majority of internet publishers (Web designers, graphic artists, bloggers, etc.) seem to be distinctly non-Christian? How can Christians increase our presence and visibility on the internet?>

I hinted at this in my other response to your post about God links. There seems to be three groups of people who in my opinion have a lower percentage of people following Christ:

1.- The first are the scientists. I think most of us might agree that their lack of faith is well connected to their having to have things proven decidedly. Faith requires overcoming doubt with evidence other than that which is empirical. With their scientific approach, very few ever make it there.

2.- Like the first, the second are engineers, particularly technology engineers. These guys deal with zeros and ones. On and off are the extremes they structure their lives around. Like scientists, a vast majority of this group are agnostics...unsure if there is a God or not.

3.- The third group I have found are the artist types. They are on the opposite end of the analytical spectrum. They tend to be more of the persuation that there are many ways into "the afterlife". Due to their creative bent, they tend to not want to be nailed down on the matters of faith and eternity. They like the idea of being able to expressive themselves how they see fit, and a Holy God with a method to salvation doesn't fit into that requirement.

The above is what I have observed, and I have no stats to back it up. As for bloggers, I have found quite a few Christian bloggers out there. In the US, the percentage of Christians is still around 30% (though falling). With blogging, not every Christian is going to babble on about their faith.

For instance, my youth ministry friend has used statedog.com to talk more about his life than his faith. Sure there is the occassional post about his work with the church or a talk he had with a kid, but more times than not his posts are commentaries on what he is experiencing in life. I think those of us who have the Holy Spirit as our guide can many times peg a Christian when we hear/see him. Let's call it "Godar" (a pun on Gaydar). Anyway, all that to say I am not convinced the US blogging community is not representative of the religion demographic.

Thanks for posting this. Keep it coming. I will do better at checking back in and dialoguing with you. Definitely a need to establish best practices for using the internet to advance the faith.

Jason