Research Discussions with Simon Perkins

The first concept of this project was the idea that the Printing Press was invented and used primerily for printing Bibles and looking at the contrast of how the press is being used today compared to those 600 years ago.

The conversations that I have had with Simon Perkins have been so interesting. Our contrast in beliefs could not be more different, Simon an athiest and myself a Christian but I think that these contrasts have been brilliant towards the direction of conversation and to the project itself.

Simon has inspired me to look more into the make-up of community and the contrasts in secular and Church cultures. One of things that has really struck me from the conversations, and maybe it takes an outsider from faith to spot it... In this post-traditional world, where society is turned on its head from history how can the Church continue to hold it's structures and strictness that binds a religion.

It would be fair to say that society today is very convenience driven whereas what the Church offers is of substance. The balance of Convenience versus Substance is a interesting debate and one that I hope to research. -

"It would be like a church offering drive-by baptisms"

- Maybe not but there is a massive gap in the market for convenience Church, podcast sermons or 'God-casts', online Christian communties.