GodBlogCon Day 2: Donahewitt

October 15, 2005 Posted by Roger OvertoncloseAuthor: Roger Overton Name: Roger Overton
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Today Hugh Hewitt broadcasted live from Biola’s library,
enabling many of us to sit and participate in his radio show. I’ve done this
before, but it’s always a blast. Throughout the day I had a conversation with
Alex Jordan about Billy Graham and Roman Catholicism, one with Brant DeBow
complaining about how early breakfast is in the morning, Stacy Harp’s husband
talked about how those John 3:16 signs at football games led him to the Bible,
and Jay Hawthorne talked about some of his thoughts on the Emerging church.

This evening was the grand Hugh Hewitt moderated panel with John Mark Reynolds (I might have mentioned him before), Mark D. Roberts, and Tod Bolsinger. During the session Lores Rizkalla (Just a Woman) and I instant messaged each other- that was fun. Hugh asked the panel a series of questions and then opened it up to the audience for questions. As I told Lores, Hugh bore a striking similarity to Phil Donahue. It wasn’t just that he has white hair and he was running around the audience with a microphone, but he also scratched his head and folded his arms just like him. He even broke into a couple of mini-monologues. This obviously means that Hugh Hewitt is really Donahue in a cheap disguise- including mostly good political views.

The panel was spectacular. I’m not at all familiar with Tod
Bolsinger, but he made some great points and fit in well with Mark D. Roberts
and JMR. An important point of the discussion was our reactions on our blogs
and refraining from being reactionary and posting out of anger. Tod offered a
great one-liner, “Don’t let the send button go down on your anger.” JMR also
assured some of us that his next book will be done soon. Since I heard about
this phantom book some time ago (seems like a couple of years), I’m very
excited. You can bet you’ll hear more about it here when the time comes. Mark
D. Roberts latest book, No Holds Barred, was published earlier this year, which
means that it’s a contender for the A-Team Book of the Year Award. So look for
a review of that in December.

The conference has been a blast. It’s been so great
meeting people in person that I’ve conversed with online. Here’s the global
church getting a little closer. Christian bloggers who aren’t here should make
plans for next year’s convention in August. More details will be announced
later.

Related posts:

1. GodBlogCon Day 3 & Reflections
2. GodBlogCon Day 1
3. GodBlogCon 2008 – Time to Register!
4. The New Media Frontier
5. Book Review: Blog by Hugh Hewitt
6. GodBlogCon 2007: John Mark Reynolds

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