Update: December 6, 2005: Many of you are landing here from searches on “Faith Shawn.” Who is Faith Shawn? 
Oh, well. While you’re here, check out this blog and a new one I just started called Fantasy Fiction for Christians.
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I am an evangelical Christian who’ll lead a discussion on “faith-based blogging” at BlogNashville next week with people who probably won’t be evangelical Christians. In fact, I suspect I’ll be only one of two evangelicals there, so I have to figure out how to discuss this topic with a diverse audience.
The New York Times published an article called Faithful Track Questions, Answers and Minutiae on Blogs (reg. req.), featuring blogs like Evangelical Outpost, AidelMaidel (Jewish) and Feminist Mormon Housewives. I doubt the range of people will be as broad at BlogNashville, but I need to come up with a series of general questions to get the ball rolling and avoid questions about theological differences.
My perspective: I blog mostly about politics, although I’m quite open about my faith. I am a faith-blogger, and I assume bloggers of other religious faiths would say the same about themselves. Or would they?
I solicit your help in formulating questions for discussion. A few I have in mind:
- What is a faith-based blogger? How is the term defined?
- Is faith-blogging a phenomenon of Christian bloggers?
- Discuss the GodBlogCon in October. Is it too exclusive? What do you think it will accomplish?
That’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’m working on my presentation for a different conference this week, so I’ll have more to say about this one next week. In the meantime, I look forward to your ideas.
Addendum: In response to a commenter, I posted this: “I want the discussion to be audience-driven rather than La Shawn-driven. I’ve never led a discussion before, so I’m trying to come up with thought-provoking questions that will get people talking.”
I’ve read helpful suggestions so far. Keep ‘em coming!
