Group Blog, Anyone?

Last updated on: November 10, 2009 at 10:27 am by John Shore

Group Blog, Anyone? 2009-11-10T10:27:47-08:00 John Shore

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pencils Following my recent and completely unfun foray into group blogging, I received a number of suggestions that I start my own group blog. At first I dismissed the idea; but it kept returning to me, and slowly but surely grew on me. I’m now at the point of thinking that it might in fact be a fun/good thing to run a group blog.

The blog I’m thinking of would be in the form of an online discussion, wherein a group of no more than a dozen Christians, each representing a different strain or denomination of the faith–conservative, liberal, Catholic, emerging, Calvinist, fundamentalist, and so on—- would discuss a specific question or topic. I or any of the group would put forth, for instance, “Today’s topic is ‘Tithing: The Pain of Giving,'” or whatever the subject might be (need I mention who would pre-approve the discussion topics?), and then our writers would chime in on that topic. No comments from readers would be allowed, since that’s the only way to avoid unwieldy separate exchange threads. And each of the blog’s members would have to agree, going in, on the rules governing membership to the blog, which would consist first and foremost of the assurance that they would at all times respect ways of being Christian that are different from their own.

I think it’d be cool to have a place where Christians of distinctly different strains and traditions could come together to discuss matters of concern to all Christians (and people). If there are Christian group blogs out there like that (and I imagine there must be), I don’t know of them. All the Christian group blogs with which I’m familiar consist of writers who believe and practice the same things. I’d like to see a blog where people could come to learn about and appreciate different ways of doing and understanding Christianity.

What do you think of such a blog? Sound good to you? Think it’d be something you’d read and visit? Have any thoughts or suggestions on it?

(Also, if you think you’d like to be one of the writers on this group blog, please include in your comment to this post a link to your own blog. Please understand that I’m not at all committing to doing this new blog; I’m only taking these few exploratory steps. But of course part of that is giving a little thought to who the writers on the blog might be.)

Thanks for your input/thoughts.

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