Will Samson pulled together a phenomenal blogger lunch at a wonderful Italian restaurant in downtown Nashville. We had 37 bloggers this year, compared to the 15 from last year. Thanks to Will, we had lunch paid for by the American Bible Society (and here is one place Will is blogging for the American Bible Society) and either a free copy of Russelll Rathbun’s new book Post-Rapture Radio from Jossey-Bass or a ForMinistry t-shirt from the American Bible Society. Thanks again to Will – here is the list of all the bloggers present.
Once again – it is attending gatherings like the bloggers lunch, and the Emergent Convention as a whole, that helps me to understand why I blog. I met many people who said they were encouraged by my blog, or they just enjoyed seeing the random stuff, the stuff that was just really pushing the envelope. So, as often as I sometimes piss people off, and as some people have a problem with some things about my blog…
I’m convinced too about the beauty and joys of some of these friendships – people connecting, hooking each other up with contacts, etc. To whatever extent possible, these people are a community of mine – a community of loosely defined ragamuffins who all feel that the mode of the written word, and in our context, the blogging world, is a place where we find community, experiment with dialogue and attempt to live out who we really are.
Thanks bloggers!
(damn that sounded sappy…oh well)