Social media has become a virtual world in which all manner of human communities are being formed, including many centered on prayer, faith, and spirituality. But with the benefits also come liabilities in terms of attentiveness vs. distraction, self-assertion, consumption, and anonymity—all enemies of healthy community. How to Be a Disciple and Digital provides a framework for an ethic of social media community to help foster the growth and stability of prayerful spiritual communities online.
KAREKIN M. YARIAN is a writer and social activist from San Francisco, and has been a member of the Episcopal religious community known as the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory since 1994. They are the author of In Love and Service Bound: The First Forty Years of the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory.
