The new Agora or town square

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Pinterest have become the equivalent of the town square.

“That’s where the public conversation is happening now,” said David L. Hansen, pastor of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church Prairie Hill in Brenham, Texas. “The place where people are making sense of the events of the world is on Twitter and Facebook.”

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