Here’s an interesting testimony to the way that blogging can give a public voice to people who don’t ordinarily have one: a homeless man in North Carolina is blogging about his (and his family’s) experience of homelessness:

...after Brown, 43, and his family were evicted from their northeast Greensboro home earlier this month, he turned to the public library and its computers for answers. Once online, he couldn’t find what he was looking for: advice from someone who was homeless.

So, he took up the task himself. He began posting to a Web log, or blog. There, he began to tell his story - how he became homeless and how he was dealing with it.

Here’s the blog itself-View From the Sidewalk. Not every poor or homeless person has the opportunity to set up a blog, of course, but Brown’s experience shows that you can accomplish quite a lot with free blogging tools and access to a public library computer.

I don’t have any deep theological insights here, but every now and then I’m just taken aback by the potential of internet technology to connect even the unlikeliest of people—like a homeless blogger and a broadband-using, middle-class, white-collar internet user. As blogging and related tools become more and more common in churches and ministry, it’s clear that Christians are starting to get it. But I think we’ve still only scratched the surface of the internet’s power to connect Christians with people they’d otherwise never meet. Food for thought.