Blog Stuff

When I post something here, it automatically goes out on Facebook and Twitter. That seems to be a good way of keeping in touch with as many of my friends as possible. However, it does divide the coversation. Comments left on Facebook can’t be seen here, and comments here don’t get added to Facebook. Tweets [...]

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The latest roundup from Allan Bevere.

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Allan Bevere has posted his latest roundup.

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At BeDeviant, a href=”http://www.revelife.com/”>Rebecca Kuebler is plainly irritated about plagiarism in the Christian blogosphere.

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Following the bit of fuss we’ve had about draft guidance on the Methodist Church and social media, I was interested to read that councillors in Cornwall are getting themselves in a tizzy over the same thing.
Councillors in Cornwall could face being reported to the authority’s standards committee for using social networking sites.
It follows claims that [...]

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Pete Philips wants a lighter touch
The good bits of the paper… point out the responsibility of blogging and using social media. Confidentiality is a requirement. Libel and slander and defamation and harassment - see yesterday’s postings - are a reality within the world of blogging. But if people are blogging or tweeting [...]

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There’s a paper going to the Methodist Council next week containing advice to the church on the use of “social media”. David Hallam has read it, and he doesn’t like it. That’s his prerogative, of course. Unfortunately, his dislike of the paper has lead him, unknowingly I’m sure, to rather misrepresent what it actually says. [...]

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Allan Bevere offers his latest picks from Methodist blogdom.

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No, not the consequence of an unfortunate medical condition. “Purging the rolls” is a UMC procedure, as Jay Vorhees explains
Every year around this time United Methodist pastor’s find themselves locked in the horns of a dilemma. It’s Charge Conference season and those of us who sit in the congregational oversight seat are faced “auditing” the [...]

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Richard Vautrey, Vice President of the Methodist Conference, attended the Archbishop’s climate change lecture yesterday. He offers a most helpful summary.
The cathedral was packed to hear him speak, and he took as his theme “The Climate Crisis: A Christian Response”.
He reflected on the story of Noah and the creation stories, and observed that humanity [...]

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In “The God You Already Know’, there is a brief section on blogging. John Davies describes the way in which his blog has become part of his prayer life.
I may not end up posting on the blog my deepest, most poignant or personal thoughts, for reasons of confidentiality … or decency… I may [...]

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Allan Bevere has his latest picks fro the Methoblogosphere.

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“Blog Action Day is an annual event that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.
The purpose of Blog Action Day is to create a discussion. We ask bloggers to take a single day out of their schedule [...]

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No particular theme to this post…
I couldn’t help smiling last week when an old post titled The Truth of Genesis was resurrected from way back when at the very time when fresh and exciting new evidence of the story of human evolution was emerging. Not that I’ve anything against old posts rising again if folk [...]

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Allen Bevere has the latest roundup.

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I’ve just received an invitation to beta-test Wetoku, a clever webapp that enables the recording of video interviews via the web. I’d like to test it out, but it’s not so easy on my own.
Anyone with a webcam that would like to give it a go, leave a comment!

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Believe in the City is a new blog by Chris Shannahan, Methodist minister, community activist - and an old mate of mine. His blog will be well worth keeping an eye on.

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Olive suggests that the President & Vice-President are offeringa blogging treat. It’s the VP Richard Vautrey doing most of the work at the moment: come on David Gamble. The blogosphere is watching!
Joking apart, the blog is a much more direct way to keep up with the President and Vice-President than has ever been possible in [...]

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OK, flame war is overdoing it. That’s headlines for you. But there has been a bit of a spat in the Methodist blogosphere around the whole issue of climate change. Since that’s a topic I’ve blogged frequently (see my tags) and feel quite strongly about, it’s an argument I felt compelled to join in.
Now I [...]

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