Henderson thinks the Internet will have an impact on religion equal to or greater than Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. He points out that the printing press took the Bible away from the control of the Church hierarchy by allowing individual worshipers direct access to the text. It effectively ended the monopoly that church officials had over the truth, and led to splintering of religious organizations into denominations.

"Now we are seeing a collapse of the denominational structures," he says. "Religion is becoming much more highly individualized. It is sort of a 'super market' approach where people come in with their own shopping carts and pick a bit of this and a bit of that. They basically reconstruct on an ad hoc basis their own personal faith."

The First Church of Cyberspace web site links to Henderson's primary interest which is a web page devoted to the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life "http://aril.org." This site contains the full contents of an ecumenically oriented magazine, Cross Currents, as well as an exceptionally high quality list of Internet links pertaining to Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism and Islam. Henderson's idea: the more we know about one other's religions, the closer we come together as people.