What started as a campus offering soon spread, and the response was overwhelming, Waldron said. Novices in technology and in retreats can navigate through the user-friendly site. Click on the Guideposts section and read the Rev. Larry Gillick's weekly reflection. Click on the photo to make it bigger, or download it as computer wallpaper. This summer, participants may be able to click on a speech and hear as well as read it.
Video links are in the works as well.
Just as Doll's photos of everyday life can be enlarged and downloaded, so might speeches be replayed as an additional offering to the Collaborative Ministry Web site. For example, people could hear Sister Helen Prejean's talk last year at Creighton. Talks and retreats could be made accessible to all kinds of people. Accessibility is an important feature, said Waldron, who as a former businesswoman, wife and mother of two feels it is important that the retreat be grounded in real life. People who are using it are people who don't have time to sit down in a prayer chair for a day.