Once again the blogosphere bumps into online ‘mainstream’ religion.
Christianity Today reviewed RealLivePreacher.com (the book).
It’s okay. I don’t live in the US and hang out with seriously churched folks, so I don’t quite understand the disclaimers. The review could have been worse.
I suspect in some quarters as the book gets more attention, there will be er, mixed reviews.
Rob Moll, who occasionally fills in for Ted Olson on CT Weblog did an IM interview with RLP. Again, blogging is blogging, and Real Live Preacher is part of blogging. It isn’t something anyone who reads blogs needs to get their heads around.
A minister who blogs, who writes a book and who get’s interviewed by a magazine is a bit of a head tilter. Like looking up over your specs. The interview is for a different audience. The interview is online.
Here is a taste of a subset online activity meeting another subset online activity - (blogging, writing, magazine - different set of readers) and two people talking about it.
I think it remains important that bloggers who can, make ourselves available to print, radio, TV, and website readership.
Published 3 years, 11 months agoI’ve thought for some time, I need more non-Christian friends. Do you think blogging is a way to do that?
Absolutely, but be very careful. If you try to become a blogger so that you can minister to the world and develop non-Christian friends, you will fail. Bloggers tend to be very intelligent and they will smell the stink of marketing on you. Become a blogger if you wish to be a part of blogging, if you want to write and to share who you are. I started Real Live Preacher because I wanted to write and share my voice and view of the world in a forum where everyone is doing that. If you become heavy-handed in your evangelism, people will ignore you. I’ve watched a few Christian blogs sputter and die in the Salon community in the last year or so, just because you could sense the arrogance and the purpose behind their writing.
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I suppose I am part of that different audience. It’s good to be reminded once in a while that the world is a little bigger.
Good on RLP. I think the review would make CT’s readers want to get the book.
You think?
While new readers wait for the publisher to catch up, they can read the blog:^)
I actually thought the review was decent. I think reviewers for Christianity Today are often overly critical. That being said, you’re correct…it could have been worse.
Sometimes I find the reviews a bit weighty.
Trouble with book reviews is often the reviewer is more in love with their words than books. It’s hard on a first time author sometimes.
Eerdman’s will make more money using disclaimers, but I can’t see CT benefiting.
It was okay. I find disclaimers in a review a bit disconcerting…as if churchy people have to be protected from?…from?:^)
Well, in some subcultures, the preacher doesn’t cuss!
It’s a fine book. I can’t wait to read it. Some of my favorite books wouldn’t have been so favorably reviewed.