today was blogger day. i spent lunch with a group of wesleyan bloggers. it was cool, but a small group. not sure where everyone was. jonathon, jay, ciona, steve, and myself sat around talking about gulfside being rebuilt, the last general conference and the international delegation there, and steve is having trouble getting started bloggin but yet, he has some great ideas to share. jay, i think, recorded the event, so i wouldn't be surprised if something made the upcoming methocast.
this evening i treated erin to an date with metho-bloggers. from left to right, cole, josh, jonathon, erin, myself, and shane. this was a spirited time with some great laughs (generally at the expense of others), blog talk, and church talk (surprise on that one). it's amazing how much fun we all have together and the friendship forged over this past year of blogging together. could this be the parallel that we all really can come to the table and talk without our political polarizations? if only the church blogged, then we'd be in a much better place of communication.
we talked about our hopes and visions for the methodist blogosphere, collaborations with some of the umc's varied agencies and some new projects to dream of. we hope that all that stuff will be something we can converse about more in the coming weeks and months (that would mean we actually got something done). i think for some of us who have been doing this methodist bloggin thing for awhile, the fun of deconstructing the umc has passed, the feeling of reconstructing and making some positive change is where we are leaning, which sucks, cause it's so much easier to tear stuff apart and be critical than it is to actually offer feasible change.
there was this one point in the night where cole insisted on witnessing to josh. it was a bit awkward, but josh repented of his sins admitting he was a liar and thief. more tragic is josh's new found sin selling his soul to the devil. thanks to cole, josh won't spend eternity in hell, which kinda stinks.. i'd love to hear his blog commentary from hell.
