Charlise Lyles (b. 1959), a native of Cleveland, reports on beliefs and cultures for the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News. Previously she covered government, courts, social services and demographic trends for the Norfolk, Virginia Virginian-Pilot. Lyles is the author of Do I Dare Disturb the Universe? -- From the Projects to Prep School (Faber & Faber, 1994), a memoir about growing up in Ohio in the 1970s. This article appeared in the Dayton Daily News, a newspaper serving the Dayton, Ohio, metropolitan area, in 1996.
"CyberFaith: Promoting Multiculturalism Online" (Composing Cyberspace p. 113) is not available online.
1. What does Lyles seem to mean by "cybersoul" (¶ 20)? What would you say are the major goals of CyberFaith International, and what advantages do its promoters and participants feel that e-mail offers for attaining these goals?
2. To what extent do you share co-founder Carla Gentry's opinion that "white people have shied away from [multiculturalism], shirking their responsibilities to their brothers and sisters of color" (¶ 3)?
3. Based on this article, to what extent do you agree that "truer individual identities can emerge" in cyberspace (¶ 19)? To what extent do you agree with the anonymous participant who says that "this is the way church ought to be" (¶ 18)?
4. Do you see any potential contradiction between Gentry's view that
CyberFaith exchanges are less likely than face-to-face settings to lead to
confrontations (¶ 11), on the one hand, and the view that anonymity
increases honesty so that "You can say things that you wouldn't dare say in
Sunday school" (¶ 27), on the other hand? How so, or why not?
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