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Steve gets blunt on 'pomo blogging'.
If I can be a little blunt, most of the Christian blogs that I read are not about experiences of people engaging in first world mission. They seem by and large to be the collective "cuttings and pastings" of people with little or no practical experience in post modern mission. Any kind of original thinking is simply cut from one site and pasted to the other until a small circle of bloggers are talking second and third hand about someone elses experiences, living vicariously though others (the few) mission experience, simply feeding our "blind to our own eyes" consumerism.
Is there really any benefit from blogging?
I thought that quote was worth Cutting and Pasting!
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I think there is real merit in what Steve is saying - too much talk ultimately devalues the whole gig. We need more people getting of their ...s and giving it a shot. That said God needs to do the 'calling'.
Posted by: hamo at July 25, 2003 02:08 PMI think bloggers should just let people complain and rant and not pay too much attention to it. If you reference others too much, somebody is going to make a comment like this one. If you don't, someone is going to say you aren't joining in on the conversation and are just writing a "moses blog". Whatever. There are no blogging rules. Do as you wish. Until you start charging a subscription fee, you don't owe anybody anything.
In defense of cutting and pasting, the blogosphere is like a large room of many knots of conversation. If someone over in knot A (which I am not part of) says something significant about postmodern mission, odds are I will find out about it only as "the buzz" passes from knot A to knot B finally to my own knot C. I want to learn about the good stuff (like hamo's girlie-bar adventure).
That said, what I think of as the really good stuff is not speculative theory, but real-life stories. Do, then share.
Posted by: Jon Reid at July 26, 2003 03:21 AMA bit harsh...but I for one need to get a lot more intentional about 'doing' rather than just talking and thinking...so I take his point to a point
Posted by: Paul at July 26, 2003 12:33 PMsteve doesn't have to read the blogs if he doesn't want to. and perhaps then that give him more time to be doing his thing?