Christianity

The following sites on or about Christianity have been awarded the ARIL Hot Site designation as ranking among the best on the Internet.

• Christianity.Net This recently reorganized site is becoming one of the leading search engines for Christian information and resources on the Net. Sponsored by Christianity Today, Inc., this is a well executed and professionally run resource.
• National Council of the Churches of Christ The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is the nation's leading organization in the movement for Christian ecumenical cooperation. The NCC's 36 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox member communions and denominations include more than 50 million persons in 140,000 local congregations in communities across the United States.
• The GodWeb  (formerly the First Church of Cyberspace) is an ambitious attempt to bring Christianity online using advanced features of HTML. Graphically rich, this site features a regularly updated blog, feature articles by Charles Henderson, sermons, meditations, and other original content found nowhere else on the Internet.
• Christian Theology Page Just what it says. A worthy and much needed attempt to compile a comprehensive list of Internet resources for use by students and scholars of Christian Theology
• Renewal2, Stephen Rose's imaginative collection of articles, Bible-study resources, poetry and other writings spanning three decades of creativity as a free-lance evangelist, social critic, and ambassador of the gospel without portfolio. Here Stephen's prize winning newsletter of the 1960's is born again for the Information Age. An imaginative and refreshing approach to evangelism on the Internet.
• The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Homepage is a welcome newcomer to the Internet! Constructed and maintained by Dr. Wayne Whitson Floyd, Jr., of Lutheran Theological Seminary, these pages will keep students and readers of Bonhoeffer up-to-date concerning the International Bonhoeffer Society and the latest scholarship. Dr. Floyd is General Editor of The Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works Translation Project. This site illustrates how scholarly work being conducted in a traditional format -- print -- can be enhanced by a new medium of communication -- the Internet.
• Ecole: Early Church History On-Line Anthony Beavers, of the University of Evansville, is writing a history of the early church in hypertext. This is an excellent example of the use of hypertext as a means of making connections between words, ideas, and points in time.
• Gregorian Chant Home Page Not just the Gregorian Chant! Princeton University musicologist, Peter Jeffery, has created a unique web site which treats a particular musical form as a window upon the past. His text is soon to be illustrated with music.
• Gregory of Nyssa Page   Translated texts and introductions to the work of the Bishop of Nyssa, ca. 335-394 AD.  David A. Salomon, a scholar at the University of Connecticut, and Casimir McCambley, a Cistercian monk, have constructed this site which features fresh translations and commentary about an innovative leader of the early Christian Church.
• Guide to Early Church Documents A remarkable resource containing the seminal documents of early Church history. Created by John Brubaker and Gary Bogart of the Institute for Christian Leadership.
• Project Wittenberg The product of the Rev. Bob Smith of Concordia Theological Seminary in cooperation with the Institute for Christian Leadership, bringing the works of Martin Luther and other Lutherans online.
• Christian Classics Ethereal Library The definitive collection in hypertext of important, public domain documents in the history of Christian life and thought as published by Wheaton College.
• Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) The Presbyterian Church has been an innovative leader in computer networking for more than ten years. At its headquarters in Louisville, KY, is located the world's largest ecumenical computer network, Ecunet. While the Presbyterian Church is new to the World Wide Web, behind these pages lies a much larger story of some real pioneers in cyberspace.
• Ecunet This is the website of the network previously mentioned and located at the headquarters of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
• Catholic Information Center This site is the God child of a Catholic business executive and philanthropist, James S. Mulholland. When the Pope visited the U.S. last year, he toured the office where the servers for this site are located and learned of CICI's plans to build a home page for every Catholic diocese in the world, thus reaching a potential congregation of wired Catholics running into the millions.
• Anglicans Online This is one among a number of "unofficial" sites put up by people of various denominations at their own expense and without official backing by the church. In this case it's Tod Maffin, putting this site together during his free time on Friday and Saturday evenings, and in so doing, leading the church kicking and screaming into the information age.
• World Council of Churches A humble beginning for the major, international organization of Christian churches.
• Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua This site is a delightful relief to other pretentious efforts on the Net! It's sense of humor alone makes it well worth a visit. Beyond that we'll let John Futterman speak for himself. "This is," he writes, "a sacred place in cyberspace named in honor of a little old dog with cataracts, who barked sideways at strangers, because he couldn't see where they were. We humans relate to God in the same way, making a more or less joyful noise in God's general direction, and expecting a reward for doing so. Hence our creed: We can't be right about everything we believe -- thank God, we don't have to be."
  
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