More and more, your keyboard is becoming a critical evangelization tool. Don’t believe it? Check out this pretty compelling bit of evidence from The Leaven, the diocesan newspaper of Kansas City, Kansas:

When Jesus told his disciples to go out and preach the good news, he likely did not have a keyboard, computer screen and mouse in mind.
Or, maybe he did.

“If the church is to dialogue with the culture, we should be aware of how the culture communicates,” said Andrew Strobl, a seminarian for the archdiocese from Queen of the Holy Rosary Parish in Overland Park, who has maintained a Weblog, or blog, for the past four years.

Strobl is just one of a growing number of seminarians — including several from the archdiocese — who see the Internet as a means of communicating and sharing their Catholic faith. As people turn more and more to the Internet as a source of information and communication, it seems only natural that learning about and experiencing the Catholic faith be a part of that as well.

“In this ‘Internet age’ it is important to go where people are who don’t know the good news,” said Barry Clayton, a seminarian from St. Pius X in Mission. “We are called as followers of Christ to go and bring his good news where it is not, so that all may have a share in the kingdom of God,” he added.

Clayton has an account on the popular social networking Web site, Facebook, along with fellow seminarian Anthony Saiki. Each started accounts as an easy way to keep in touch with family and friends, but soon found it could be used as a way for them to witness to their Catholic faith as well.

“I think that it is crucial for the church to have an interactive presence out there for kids, teens, and really everyone— especially in light of all the sinful Web sites that are out there trying to manipulate and draw people to them,” said Saiki. “With the world becoming so active on the Internet, I see having a blog as participating and obeying Christ’s command to the apostles to be witnesses to him to all corners of the earth,” he added. “This provides us such a great chance to reach ‘all corners of the earth’ with the click of a mouse.”

Check out the rest of the story and — get blogging!