The Web Deacon™ can include personal journals. Journaling is a popular way to express one's own ideas and to elicit comments from persons interested in a given subject. These are suitable both for pastoral commentaries or for personal testimony.

In our context, one powerful use of the technology is to provide each member of a church or religious community with a platform on which he or she can write about religious experiences and beliefs. The easy web log format allows the writer to open a dialog with visitors to the site.

The owner of the journal is free to set its access parameters. Visitors can be enabled only for reading, or they can be allowed to post comments on the writer's themes, or they can be permitted to post their own themes. It's all very flexible.

Journals sponsored by an organization or individual have a similar appearance when initialized, but the writer can personalize the appearance, choosing colors, fonts, etc., to make the site a personal testimony.

Personal journals are a feature of Premium and Enterprise sites. They can be a benefit of membership, or they can be a fundraising tool.