If Jesus were a blogger, what would he blog? That question and others were recently asked at a Christian (read, Evangelical Protestant) blogging conference:
"What would Jesus blog?
"That and other pressing questions drew 135 Christians to Southern California this weekend for a national conference billed as the first-ever for ‘God bloggers,’ a growing community of online writers who exchange information and analyze current events from a Christian perspective.
"The three-day conference at Biola University marked an important benchmark for Christian bloggers, who have worked behind the scenes for years to spread the Gospel and infuse politics with religion.
"Topics included God bloggers’ relationship with the traditional church, their growing influence on mainstream politics and how to manage outsiders’ perceptions.
"Some predicted bloggers could play a role in reforming the modern church by keeping televangelists and other high-profile Christian leaders honest."
The most intriguing metaphor used by the God bloggers was given by Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost, in which he compared blogging to Martin Luther’s 95 theses. In that spirit, it sounds like we need a Counter-Reformation of Catholic bloggers. If Mary were a blogger, what would she blog? And when will St. Blog’s Parish have its own conference to discuss that and other questions of Catholic blogging? We could call it The Saint Bloggers.
Hey Michelle,
The GodBlogCon had a few Catholic bloggers but we would have loved to have had more. We didn’t intend for it to turn into an “evangelical” event but the abscence of a significant number of non-evangelical voices ended up making it that way. Hopefully, we’ll be able to do a better job of getting the word out next time so that we will have a more united and ecumenical conference.
What’s needed, Jimmy, is an inquisition.
That metaphor using the reformation was originally advanced by Hugh Hewitt in his book Blog. Some of Hugh’s points in his otherwise excellent book are valid, except he made the common mistake of thinking that Martin Luther had written the first German translation.
I reviewed his book and mentioned some of these errors and I was surprised when he linked to my review.
I wish we would come up with another word than the “counter-reformation” it is just so misleading and ackward. It was really just part of the continious-reformation of renewal that we always need.