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Contents *
A.1 The World Wide Web
A.2 Usenet
A.3 Gopher
A.4 FTP
A.5 Email
* additional material
People often ask for references to resources of interest to Christians. Below I've listed some URLs (Uniform Resource Locators) that I am familiar with.
Perhaps my favorite starting point is the ICLnet homepage <http://www.iclnet.org/> They have done an excellent job of gathering together and organizing references to all the christian resources on the Internet that I have ever been aware of, and more. Check it out if you haven't already. I also use it as my entry point to the amazing Not Just Bibles guide to Christian resources on the Internet.
Not Just Bibles: A Guide to Christian Resources on the Internet http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/christian-resources.html
The ICLnet homepage, a major gateway to the christian sections of the internet. http://www.iclnet.org/
The World Wide Web branch of the Christia Library http://www.aber.ac.uk/~spk/christia
The Soc.Religion.Christian Home Page. http://planchet.rutgers.edu/soc.religion.christian.html
The WWW version of the DAWN FridayFax, a source of information about missions around the world. http://www.tecc.co.uk/jesusa/dawnindx.html
The Orthodox Page (in America) http://www.ocf.org:80/OrthodoxPage/
The Orthodox Page (in Europe) http://www.forthnet.gr/hellas/Orthodox-Page/Orthodox.html
New Advent Catholic Christian Web Page http://www.csn.net/advent/
Christian Book Connection (CBC) is an online Christian bookstore (still under construction) http://www.xmission.com/~seer/Christian-Book/index.html
The Yankee Christian http://www.tiac.net/users/macgyver/reli.html
America's Christian Heritage Home Page. http://www.mcs.com/~dougp/a/heritage.html
The Bible Index includes daily devotionals, a stories list, topical verse lists, and more. http://linus.cs.ohiou.edu:80/~mwavle/bible/index.html
Some of Lambert Dolphin's favorite Web links http://www.best.com/~dolphin/URLres.html
Files related to the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches http://listserv.american.edu/
The Talk.Origins Archive Home Page http://rumba.ics.uci.edu:8080/
Christia can also be read via the Usenet newsgroup bit.listserv.christia. While the mailing list is not moderated, the usenet group is moderated. This explains why there are so many submissions from FOCMCB (aka the USENET/NETNEWS Moderator)
Additional newsgroups of possible interest are listed below. I know very little about them, so read at your own risk. I feel I should repeat this warning - some of these alt.* groups can seem very unchristlike, in a way that is rarely seen on Christia.
news:alt.messianic
news:alt.christnet
news:alt.christnet.*
news:alt.education.home-school.christian
news:alt.support.ex-cult
news:alt.org.promisekeepers
news:alt.religion.christian
news:alt.religion.christian.boston-church
news:alt.religion.mormon
news:bit.listserv.christia
news:soc.religion.christian
news:soc.religion.christian.youth-work
news:soc.religion.christian.bible-study
news:soc.religion.quaker
news:rec.music.christian
news:clari.news.religion
Files related to the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches gopher://listserv.american.edu/
The Not Just Bibles document can be downloaded from here in a plain text, wordperfect, or html format. See the file NJBinfo.txt for information on which files to download. ftp://iclnet93.iclnet.org/pub/resources/
The Bible Software FAQ by Shawn Abigail is located here, as well as some bible software for Macs and PCs. ftp://iclnet93.iclnet.org/pub/resources/software/
Bible software for you computer can be found here. ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/religion/christian
The number of email lists that might be of interest to Christians is fairly large. Here are a few that might be of interest.
To subscribe:send the command "SUB CHRISTIA YourFirstname YourLastname" to the address listserv@asuvm.inre.asu.edu.
To subscribe: send the command "SUBSCRIBE BAPTIST YourFirstname YourLastname" to the address listserv@ukcc.uky.edu
To subscribe: send the command "SUBSCRIBE WORSHIP-LIST YourEmailAddress" to the address majordomo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
To subscribe: send the command "SUBSCRIBE CHRISTIAN-SINGLES YourEmailAddress" to the address majordomo@iclnet93.iclnet.org
(OK folks, I just gave out. Send me your favorite christian email lists, web sites, gopher stuff, etc. I will add them. If you try to format your contribution like I have those above, it would help me _tremendously_. - Mark)