04.26.07
Posted in community, faith at 6:55 am by admin
Last weekend three folks from the first Progressive Faith Blog Con gathered for a sweet reason — the baptism of PFBC co-founder Thurman’s twin sons. The boys were baptized at an Episcopal church in Secaucus, and for a special twist, they received Jewish and Muslim blessings from Rachel and Hussein. Progressive faith in action!
Thurman wrote about the experience here; Rachel’s post is online here.
Now I’m looking especially forward to the next con — is it summer ‘08 yet?
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01.24.07
Posted in community, conference planning at 9:49 am by admin
Hi gang! Long time no blog, I realize; apologies for the lengthy radio silence.
Thurman just posted over at Street Prophets, asking whether there’s general interest in a second annual Prog Faith Blog Con coming to pass (and, as a related query, who out there might be willing to join the planning committee to make it happen, since neither of us is in a position to orchestrate things again.) It would be great if you would weigh in on that question; his post is here.
Hope to see you soon!
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08.15.06
Posted in community at 9:20 am by admin
Emily Ronald from The Pluralism Project has posted her post-con write-up. She talks about exploring a new means of communication, defines blogging, and recollects and summarizes the weekend’s events, panels, and conversations.
Well worth a read. Thanks, Emily!
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07.16.06
Posted in blogstuff, community, faith, politics at 4:23 pm by admin
Shanta offered an overview of the weekend, including some good words about hopes for the future.
Michelle posted notes from the Saturday evening roundtable.
And Reverend Bruce posted the text of his remarks from last night — don’t miss this one!
Rabbi Jill Jacobs posted an overview here.
Mata H. posted a beautiful weekend wrapup post that talks some about the worship we experienced together.
Andrew posted three lovely things about the weekend: Live from the Progressive Faith Blog Convention, On Prayer, and Progressive Faith Blog Con: Coda: New York at night.
And here’s a final post from Velveteen Rabbi: Christian worship, and closing remarks.
On an unrelated note, I’m about to go offline for a week — a rabbinic school retreat — so I won’t be able to keep aggregating conference-related posts here. But please enjoy reading each others’ conference posts, leave comments, have conversations…and I’ll talk to y’all when I get home again!
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07.15.06
Posted in blogstuff, community, faith, politics at 7:06 pm by admin
There’s been more liveblogging! Michelle posted Progressive Faith Blog Con, Saturday morning and a writeup of the Faith in politics panel.
Photos are also beginning to appear; here are some of Lorianne’s photos, and here is a photoset I started earlier today. Reverend Bruce offers a photo of the faith and politics panel.
Islamoyankee posts notes on the Muslim worship session that he led. Here’s a response to the Muslim prayer experience at Velveteen Rabbi.
And one more Velveteen Rabbi post: Roundtable: what is progressive religion?
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Posted in blogstuff, community, conference planning, faith, politics at 11:23 am by admin
Lorianne at Hoarded Ordinaries posted a photo-illustrated piece about the weekend, starting with last night’s service and moving into the heart of today: Plugging in.
Islamoyankee at Islamicate posted a hyperlinked list of good stuff from the Talking Tech panel, and some notes on the Faith and politics panel.
Chris at Even the Devils Believe isn’t liveblogging per se — because he’s not here; he’s stuck in Paris! But he weighs in from afar.
And at Velveteen Rabbi, I posted a writeup of this morning’s meditation (both the learning, and the practice) called Buddhist meditation; a writeup of this afternoon’s "faith and politics" panel at Faith and politics; and a writeup of the International relations breakout, too.
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Posted in blogstuff, community, conference planning, faith, politics at 10:19 am by admin
A bunch of us are liveblogging the conference; here’s an attempt to round up liveblogged posts so far.
Posts at Velveteen Rabbi:
- Friday
- Roots and Branches
- J-blogosphere breakout
- Blogging Scripture
- all conference posts: here
Posts at Islamicate:
- Pluralism
- Beginnings
- Blogging text
Posts at Mainstream Baptist:
- Panel about community
- Faith affiliation breakouts
Posts at Faith in Public Life:
- Blog con on
- Talking About Our World
Posts at Pearlbear’s Blog:
- Blog Con, Day 1.
(She also spent the early part of the morning transcribing everything everyone said for the irc channel — yay and thankyou! We’ll post a link to that soon too.)
If you’re blogging the conference, let us know and we’ll do our best to add your posts to this list in realtime…
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