Celebrating world religion day online is a great way to connect with people of different faiths around the world

With World Religion Day approaching soon, many ministers of the Universal Life Church are giving serious thought to various ways they can use their website to celebrate spirituality with their congregations. If you are like most modern ministers, your website plays a big part in how you interact with the members of your church. In fact, your church may be primarily an online church that does not have regular meetings in brick-and-mortar structures. Although some may find this concept to be impersonal, the Internet is actually an excellent venue for exploring and celebrating spirituality because it allows people from all parts of the planet to share a spiritual path.

Ministers in traditional churches frequently believe that exploring and celebrating other faiths takes away from their own, but this is simply not the case. Those who honor other faiths are also honoring their own belief systems. Most people who have chosen to be ordained as Universal Life Church ministers already innately know this concept. Explaining different beliefs on your website is a way to show respect and understanding toward those of different faiths.

If the congregation of your online church is interfaith, you might want to consider encouraging the participation of you members by asking them to write about their own particular faiths and spiritual paths. This is an excellent way for your members to take an interactive role in their church and for them to get to know one another as human beings.

The concept involved in World Religion Day doesn’t have to be confined to one single calendar day, by the way. One day doesn’t really do justice to abundance of spiritual diversity that exists on Planet Earth. Whether your members of your congregation all share the same faith or your church is an interfaith community, regularly celebrating other religions will substantially strengthen the bonds between your church members and yourself.

You-Tube videos depicting interviews with people of various faiths is a great way to share spiritual information with your congregation and keep the contents of your website interesting. You should also keep in mind that people like their spiritual experiences to be interactive. Setting up a chat room on your website is a good way to encourage members to have conversations regarding spiritual matters. You could set up a time each week for group discussions and even invite guest speakers who belong to other religions to participate, or initiate group talks between members of different churches.

When you decided to be ordained, you probably choice the Universal Life Church because respect, charity and peace are important concepts in your life. Using your online church to foster those qualities in others is something that you most likely feel is your highest calling. That’s why it’s important that your website provide opportunities for others to discuss spiritual matters. Forums can easily be set up on social media pages like Facebook or even on your primary website itself. Discussions should be specific to personal meanings concerning faith and religion’s general role in society. Conversations about how to interact with people who are atheists or agnostics can also be interesting and informative.

A good minister also learns not only from his or her congregation but from those who practice other religions. Keep in mind that World Religion Day is also a learning experience for you.