For class, we were to bring in an "archive" related to our project topic. Being a very electronic-based society, most of the history of the Axis Church is archived online. I mentioned in an earlier post that the Axis sends out a weekly newsletter with announcements about what's going on in the community. Personally, I save every email that I get, and so I pulled up an archive of emails sent to me by the Axis over the year and a half that I've been attending. There are 140 emails saved in the folder.
So what does this tell me about my culture? For one, it tells me how the Axis has progressed. You can see changes in newsletter layout, changes in the content, changes in church structure, all made known in these emails. You can see trends of worship songs being played, trends of what our pastors use to encourage people in the emails, etc. It brings me a lot of joy actually see where the Axis has come; to connect different periods of history in the church with different periods of email activity.
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