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Submitted by DrTony on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 2:43am.

I recently conducted a workshop entitled “Technology in the Pulpit”.  It was designed to explore many of the ways that computers and its attending technology can be used not only in the pulpit but in other ways to facilitate evangelism and the work of the church.  This include exploring how to become a blogger.

For me, it was an interesting time because it allowed me to do what I am supposed to be doing, teaching, and in an area that I have explored since it became part of the educational and religious landscapes some twenty years ago.

More importantly, the two “graduates” of the workshop are now bloggers in their own right and a part of the Methodist Blogging community.  They are

  1. The Odd Thought, and
  2. Living Water

Please visit their sites and help welcome them to the neighborhood.

finish the sentence

Submitted by gavin on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 12:54pm.
andrew conard has a fun & intriguing piece where he is asking folks to finish the sentence.

methoblog tweeting

Submitted by gavin on Thu, 05/15/2008 - 11:26pm.
the methoblog is twittering. be sure to follow it we'd like to follow you and plug ya in here

what happened on 80449?

Submitted by gavin on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 10:39pm.
i got to watch most of the afternoon session. this happened to hold one of the bigger anticipation parts for this conference. this is where the church and society 2 group brought to the floor petition 80449 which dealt with restructuring the social principles on human sexuality. steve rankin, a delegate at gc has a very nice perspective.

Then comes a time for making amendments to both minority and majority reports. Because homosexual practice is so contested in our church, lots of amendments are made to the reports, frankly, incrementally, subtly to gut the meaning of whichever proposal the amender doesn't like. Once the amendments are made, then, people can make speeches in support of or against the report. A maximum of three speeches for and three against are allowed. Then comes the vote.

Now to the issue at hand. The committee had voted to remove the "incompatibility" language from the Social Principles statement in the Book of Discipline regarding "the practice of homosexuality," which now states that such practice is "incompatible with Christian teaching." Removing the "incompatibility language" and replacing it with a statement that our church is divided on the matter was, in sum, the majority report proposal.

The minority report proposal asked for the church to maintain its current position, recognizing and upholding the scriptural teaching against homosexual practice. To make a long story short, by a very narrow margin, the Conference voted to replace the majority report with the minority report, then voting to adopt it as the majority report. By a margin of 55% to 45%, it passed. So, the official stance of The United Methodist Church stays the same as it has been on the question of homosexual practice, but the margin of support was very close. We look like a divided church.

General Conference Blog Updates

Submitted by gavin on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:13am.
  1. i have worked way later than i should have to find and roll in some new blogs for the general conference aggregator. hopefully you will check that out as they should update pretty regularly.
  2. as i have been reading the many blog postings it gives a very great expansive understanding of all that is happening. i encourage you all to check that out. if i knew how to make it all one feed i would.. but i am not able to work miracles, that is jay and he's off in the Holy Land.
  3. i found this link of the "cell phone-gate" from gc08 over the weekend, via rmn blog. it is slanted, to be expected, but cool part. it has video footage from "cell phone-gate" meeting.
  4. so i was wondering.. anyone video blogging from gc08? there is someone, meet warren. you can also do a search like this via youtube for all the most recent general conference uploads.
  5. i'd encourage all in the blog world of folks finding this site for conference info to say prayers for their delegates as from what i am reading the days get more intense as all the committee work comes to the floor. while you are doing that, go ahead and throw up a prayer for the various workers operating logistics, serving food, etc.

An Interesting Article

Submitted by DrTony on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 10:27am.

There is an interesting article in the March 21, 2008 print version of The United Methodist Reporter (Worship Trends section).  It is entitled "Blogging Benefits: Pastors discover online community enhances preaching" and mentions several members of The Methoblog.  The on-line version is here.

if you haven't checked it in awhile

Submitted by gavin on Mon, 03/17/2008 - 9:58pm.
we have added quite a few new blogs to the blogroll in the last two weeks.. i wish i was better at keeping track of them. i do well enough to help people get loaded in.

so if you haven't cruised the blogroll in a few weeks or months, scan through, you should see some new wonderful fabulous peeps.

in spirit of our top 5

Submitted by gavin on Thu, 12/27/2007 - 1:19pm.
since this is partly in the spirit of our top 5 series. "out of Ur" the blog of Christianity Today has their top 10 posts of the year. some good posts worthy of sharing. in other reading. "what is blogging like" by problogger. updated: here is a list of major incidents around the internet for 2007.

Top 5 of 2007

Submitted by gavin on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 11:05pm.
another year is coming to a close. this begins an annual blogging tradition of collecting methobloggers top 5 posts of 2007. we used to host this on another site, but for this year we will be posting top 5's here at the methoblog. if you wish to participate, email me gavoweb(at)gmail(dot)com your top 5 posts of 2007 and i will plug them in here at the methoblog. criteria for top 5? it is entirely up to you. completely subjective.. maybe your favorite post of all time, most comments, got a lot of hits, made you but no one else laugh, meaningful moment of the year, the day you realized that jay shaved his mustache.. whatever!

Reporters and Bloggers

Submitted by John_of_Locusts... on Fri, 11/16/2007 - 2:56pm.
Robin Russell, editor of the UM Reporter writes: Frankly, it has always rankled me to see online "news" sites -- even in Methodism -- where someone slaps a byline on information culled from other sources. That's a quick and easy way of passing along news, but it's really just taking the credit for the work done by others. Hardly the same as doing the work of reporting yourself, as those of us who have plodded through countless and diverse assignments on deadline at daily newspapers well know. Yet it happens all the time. And I've often wondered, when dead-tree versions of the news are gone, where will bloggers get their information?
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