Someone elsewhere seemingly making a joke about my use of the term GodBlogCon briefs, I will use the term “boxers” here.
I’m running late this morning, so I will just address the issue Richard Hall of Connexions raised about inclusiveness and beyond the borders.
Last night, John Mark Reynolds seemed to acknowledge that it was mostly a conservative evangelical Christian, Republican, American gathering. He did seem to point to trying to broaden any future gatherings. However, I thought he was also a little too defensive about criticisms of GodBlogCon. I never heard him address the point that the list of speakers seems by my reckoning from a fairly narrow theological spectrum even given that invitees were expected to ascribe to traditional, historical Christianity. For example, even among conservative evangelicals, there is a high percenage of Arminian thinkers. However, as I looked over the GodBlogCon roster, Calvinist thought seems to overwhelmingly predominate here.
As for myself, I should say that I have been treated with great respect and kindness. The hosts have gone out of their way to answer questions, give directions, etc. I have been made to feel very welcome.
Prior to the convention starting, I had commented to a few other bloggers that the event almost seemed more heavily promoted before registration opened than afterwards. However, the organizers seem very open to learning from this first experience.
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Mind if my ‘man in the street’ steals … I mean borrows this term for their next post?
It’s disappointing that the Left wasn’t more widely represented.
I’ve noticed the same thing about the Christian blogosphere — it’s mostly Calvinist.
There’s even a League of Reformed Bloggers, but there is no corresponding organization of Arminian bloggers.
Maybe they should start one.
and to be fair to the organizers, they put out the welcome mat, wide and open, and welcomed all who’d come.. we all paid our own dime, speakers included, so they did the best they could, and they welcome help to organize this thing too.. Anyone who can pay for registration can come. I think the perception would be that, if the organizers tried to explain what they did, it’d come across a little defensive. But, as a politically ambivalent person myself, I can truly say that they do hope more perspectives would come to the next gig.
To be honest, even some of us ‘reformed’ conservatives were turned-away by the organizers when we answered the call to volunteer.