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January 4th, 2008

Anglican bloggers

anglican bloggers

I have decided that whilst procrastinating from my main task, that of producing one good diagram a day, I will attempt to mend the rift in the Anglican Communion using various methods.

Part one is the formation of a Facebook group entitled ‘Anglican Bloggers‘ which is for all bloggers and blog commenters with an interest in Anglican things.

A group for people who blog about Anglican goings-on. Also the people who comment on the blogs about Anglican goings-on. Also Anglicans who blog, but not about Anglican goings-on. Also those who have no idea what is going on, but want to join in.

This is a group for those who blog from the right hand pews, those who blog from the left hand pews and those who find themselves blogging in the central aisle where they might be struck down by a hymnbook from either side or be run down by the procession. Everyone is welcome.

I hadn’t planned this to be a place for in-depth debate, as there are lots of those out there anyway. But it might become a place to connect with the people behind the websites. Who knows, we might discover we’re all human after all. And where the bloggers lead the bishops follow. Or something.

If you know any Anglican bloggers and commenters then please let them know. There is a thread where you can add your own site and hopefully other discussions will develop. If you’re not on Facebook it is quite easy to sign up, but if you don’t want to do so for idealogical reasons I respect that.

By the way I have drawn the people in the cartoon wearing cassocks as I am assuming we all wear cassocks when blogging and commenting. In fact I tend to wear a dressing gown, which is a short cassock made from towelling material.

OK, let’s send some invitations to some distant (and not so distant) pews. I know all of us Anglican bloggers check our referrers on an hourly basis. To the following – you’d all be most welcome to join us:

This is by no stretch of the imagination anywhere remotely near an exhaustive list, but I had to start somewhere. Simon of the Thinking Anglicans has already joined, as has Bishop Alan and a good number of others. Well, we’re into double figures.

Please feel free to use the above cartoon on your own site. Just copy and paste this handy code:


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<p>Cartoon by <a href="http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/">Dave Walker</a>. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at <a href="http://www.weblogcartoons.com/">We Blog Cartoons</a>.</p>

Update:
I’ve posted a couple of responses from a few of the blogs on theFacebook group. I particularly appreciated the post from Mark Harris: PRELUDIUM: The Fulfillment of Predictions 1. Also Fr Jake Father Jake Stops the World: All You Need is Love? and from the other side it will be interesting to see the comments on Stand Firm – I Thought I Felt a Disturbance in the Force.

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  1. chris clark says:

    There is a little town just outside Burgess Hill called Hassocks. Every time I go through it on the train I think of everybody kneeling on one…I assume this would be an acceptable alternative to wearing a cassock while blogging. Or perhaps something to use when having blogged what we ought not to have blogged and not blogged what we ought to have blogged?

    January 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
  2. jody says:

    I shall join forthwith

    forthwith being a recognised ‘anglican’ adverb.

    January 4th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
  3. Anglican bloggers at Targuman says:

    [...] Anglican bloggers [...]

    January 4th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
  4. Doug Chaplin says:

    Hmm … now I’ve got to ask myself, is this worth joining Facebook for?

    January 4th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
  5. Gentle Wisdom » Anglican bloggers on Facebook says:

    [...] Dave Walker of the Cartoon Blog has started a Facebook group for Anglican bloggers and blog commenters. I mention this here as an invitation to you to join (if you are Anglican, and a Facebook member or prepared to become one) and to give me an excuse to post this cartoon which goes with the group: [...]

    January 4th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
  6. Binks, WebElf says:

    The only ones around longer than Binky & the Anglican WebElves (1998) being Anglicans Online (1995), and your forget us? Tsk tsk tsk tsk. One more: tsk.

    New Years apologies and invitations will be accepted, though it’s unclear to what actual purpose. “Blessed are the peacemakers”, if peace can be made between proponents of what– at the further edges– are two fundamentally different versions of Christianity, with an institutional progressivism lording it over a traditionalism largely in retreat & escape from the battle.

    January 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am
  7. Anne says:

    OK, I went, I joined, and I ran into a good friend who’s also an Anglican blogger. How cool is that?

    January 6th, 2008 at 3:01 am
  8. David Keen says:

    Now we have a couple of bishops signed up, can we form our own denomination? All we need to do is find something we disagree with everyone else about. Any suggestions?

    January 6th, 2008 at 9:47 am
  9. tortoise says:

    Actually, to be a bona fide denomination these days you’ll need to find something you disagree amongst yourselves about.

    January 6th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
  10. webweaver.pttw says:

    Yet one more reason to join one more social networking site . . . hum . . . could I use that as part of a Sunday morning excuse?

    Dear Vicar,

    Sorry, I couldn’t make it yesterday morning, I had to stay home and check all my social networking site profiles, those groups and the ones over on Yahoo, and then there are all the e-mail lists I’m subscribed too. I also had to update my blogs, websites, and podcasts. I Twittered what I did too.

    I won’t be there next Sunday either, I have plans to work on a world record for having the most tabs open at one time in Firefox.

    If you posted your sermons in a podcast feed, I’d so subscribe via iTunes.

    A. Geek

    January 13th, 2008 at 5:08 am