The Social Principles Word-Cloud
Image via WikipediaA mission.hack is defined here. We look at mission statements or at mission initiatives and examine different ways of expressing them. Hacking them...if you will.
Wordle is a fascinating generator that allows you to paste chunks of text, and it will make a word-cloud out of it, giving words that are repeated more often bigger letters (like the tag cloud to the right). I think it will become a regular part of our repertoire when evaluating mission.hacks, to expose what terms show up the most. If nothing else, it will be fun to use.
To try it out, I inserted the United Methodist Social Principles (the preamble and main paragraphs [160-166]) into the generator, and clicked random grouping, grabbed a mountain dew, and almost spewed it when I saw what came out!
I hesitate to claim any lesson to be found in random groupings of words. But I was struck by the way how it randomly placed the two most repeated words (God and persons) together:
While you can read the biblical, theological, and historical basis of the Creed, I think here is the basis of the social principles:
- We are called to be Godpersons who bring Life to the World.
That's it. Pretty simple, eh?
4 comments:
that's strikingly beautiful. It should be printed on cards. Love it!
What's the significance of the color coding?
None, random picking. I've seen word clouds that do give significance to them, but this doesn't appear to be one.
That is nice! Do make cards out of it!
And give some to me!!:)
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