I have often encountered criticism for blogging. Either people worry and think I might blog about them (ego) or they wonder whether I might be better doing something more useful instead (we should all have hobbies!). Christians have always been encouraged to reflect and journal. The Anglican church, in particular, has committed itself to listening and talking across our various viewpoints, so this is why I continue to be committed to blogging as the writer and talker that I am by nature behaves online as she is likely to off-line. I went to Bishops Advisory Panel presenting my blog-apologetics and blogging about faith might just have something to do with why they recognised my call in the first place!
I am collecting here some scholarly approaches to the apologetics of blogging as an appropriate past time.
- "The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship" by James McGrath SBL Chair in New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University, Indianapolis.
