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January 22, 2005
'Faith-Based Blogging'?
I love following the high-level discussions within the blogosphere about blogging and then pretending like I'm somehow involved in all of it (even though I've never been to Bloggercon, and I only seem to speak about blogging at Christian conferences). So when some bigtime bloggers convened at Harvard this weekend to discuss "the ethics of blogging," I was interested in following the conversation.
It got really interesting when Hugh Hewitt (author of Blog: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World) criticized the group for not inviting more "faith-based bloggers" to the gathering—and in the process opened a whole semantic can of worms.
Jeff Jarvis quickly jumped on Hewitt and questioned the use of the term "faith-based." Jarvis writes, "I go to church, teach Sunday school, preach occasionally, head up the church board, and sing in the choir (badly, I confess). I blog frequently from my moral perspective. It may not be yours. But aren't I a faith-based blogger, too?"
It's an interesting question. I'm not going to try and answer it ... at least not right now. And I'm not going to start calling myself a "faith-based blogger" anytime soon either. Instead, let me suggest that perhaps Hewitt is just angling for some government funding? You never know. It could happen ...
Posted by Steve K. at January 22, 2005 08:25 PM
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