Comments on: GodBlogCon Day 3 & Reflections

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:52:00 +0000

DJ,
That sounds about right
Also, I appreciated the distinctions you made between those who blog for different purposes. I think you're on to an important point that's helpful in understanding the different types of blogs out there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:00:00 +0000

Okay, okay, okay, it's not exactly the same identical thing re: emerging types going to a evangelical event vs. evangelical types going to an emergent event. I did not want to use more words to explain the imprecision of my choice of words, and simplified for a little brevity in a comment field.
Believe you me, even when I do go to emerging church events, I'm asked “what's blogging” more often than I run into bloggers there, so while blogging has a more pertinent role in the forming of theology and thw way of life of an emergent type, it is not pervasive among emergent types. Perhaps I should clarify this aspect of it. Bloggers do not comprise a majority among emerging church types, but blogging does help emerging church types connect with each other, when it often feels like they are isolated and marginalized by society at large and by traditional churches. How's that?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:03:00 +0000

Amy took the words right out of my mouth. As I noted at the workshop, blogging is a very central feature of the emerging church discussion, so it would make since to have emerging folk at a Christian blogging convention. The emerging church isn't understood as being central to what traditional evangelicals do.
You bring up another interesting point to discuss, though. Why aren't traditional evangelicals flocking to emerging church conventions? Well, I think some do, the problem is that we don't typically where our theology on our t-shirt. Plenty of people are somewhere in between traditional and emergent, and I've met those people at emergent events. Also, aside from myself, some of the STR and White Horse Inn staff have been to at least one emergent convention, and they're all very traditional. While the welcome mat may be there, there isn't anything offered for the traditional evangelical at emerging conventions. We go to find out about emergent, but nothing is geared toward helping us do what we do.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:15:00 +0000

“Someone could say the same thing about traditional evangelicals and why they don't show up more at emerging church events, when the welcome mat and open arms are there too.”
It's not exactly the same thing. They're not part of the emerging church so they're not likely to show up at emergent events, but emerging church bloggers are part of the God Blogs.
I'm just disappointed I didn't get to meet Andrew Jones. I was sorry he didn't make it there.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:08:00 +0000

Thank you for being a part of our little breakout on emerging church blogs, and good to hang out with the A team this weekend! I do think emerging church bloggers participate in the blogosphere in notably different ways than the majority of GodBlogCon attendees, and I'll note some of those at my blog, now that I've had a few more hours to simmer my reactions.
While separatism is a factor (for the lack of emerging church bloggers at GodBlogCon), I think that's a knife that can cut both ways. Someone could say the same thing about traditional evangelicals and why they don't show up more at emerging church events, when the welcome mat and open arms are there too.
More reasonably, a great opportunity is right here in the blogosphere for that conversation to be cultivated and continued.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 21:28:00 +0000

Thank you very much for your suggestions on how to improve GodBlogCon 2006! I have been scouring the Blogosphere today particularly looking for suggestions such as these that will help the students of the Torrey Honors Institute make GBC 2006 bigger and better!