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Culture: Web meets religion at GodBlogCon | Joe Carter

The pews of the Biola University chapel were filled with 135 Christians from around the country. The believers sat quietly, heads bowed, reverently searching the answer to the same question: "Why is the wireless connection not working?"

Getting connected to the internet in church is not yet a common concern, but for attendees at the first-ever GodBlogCon the matter was urgent. The online faithful, on the Southern California campus to participate in an Oct. 13-15 conference of Christian bloggers, were eager to share their every thought and reaction with the rest of the blogosphere.

Blogging has become a community-building tool and GodBlogCon was a place for Christian bloggers to meet counterparts with whom they have corresponded for years. Some of the better-known bloggers even had the kind of celebrity status normally reserved for reality-TV stars.

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