In Australia, it's a verandah. In North America, it may more often be called a porch. It's the middle zone between our private space and our public face. See here for example (picture sourced from this UMC site).
It's a metaphor that's been used by christians who have realised that they're often talking more 'in house' than to people outside their circle. If we believe we have something to share, we have to take stock of where we spend our time, what we spend our time talking about, and how we go about saying it.
We need both spaces: private ones, public ones and in-between ones.
This is about discussing how we can best use Internet resources for these various aims.
And to discern when when we're doing what.
It comes from a small task force at Burwood Evening, a congregation in Sydney of the Uniting Church in Australia.
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