If it is true, its a loss to the music world. Sure, he’s had his crazy antics, but his legacy will and should be his music. His music was so popular, who can forget ‘Billy Jean’, ‘Thriller’, ‘Bad’ and countless more hits? His music inspired so many, one of my memories of primary school was performing in a drama class to ‘Thriller’, dressed up as Zombies and all sorts!

It’s quite sad that already, before its even confirmed, there are cruel, sick jokes going around about his death, whats wrong with people? If you didn’t like or respect him as a person or a musician, respect the fact that others do have that love and respect for him, respect the fact that he has a family who are going to be hurting!

I’m watching Sky news as I write this, as well as following various Facebook updates and those I follow on Twitter(when it doesn’t crash!). The big news agencies now seem to be confirming that he has in fact died. I’ll be praying for his family and friends, no death of a close friend/ relative is easy. If you are a person of faith, please pary for his family too, especially his kids…..

Peace Out

It started me thinking, other than a (IMHO) very tricky website to manouvre, there isn’t much of a ‘National’ Church of Scotland online presence. Does there have to be? How vital is it that individual Churches have a website? I know that, for me, whether or not a Church has some form of online presence is an indicator of where the Church is in its journey as a faith community, that is at least my experience of Churches, you may disagree?

There are multiple ‘unofficial’ CofS group set up on Facebook, and the Mission and Discipleship Council have just launched their Youtube page and the current moderator has a weekly blog although I’m disappointed in the lack of RSS feed coming from it! Sanctuary First is an exciting initiative some people I know have been talking about too.

What more could the CofS be doing online? Anything? Could Twitter be utilised by them? Could they use networks such as Bebo and Facebook more effectively?

Iain McLarty posted a blog post a few months ago with the Deliverances that came out of the Youth Assembly last September, The 2nd section is what the NYA had to say about the Church and media.