We’ve got a thread going talking about raising the level of identification within our community with our OC/IC tradition. I’ve been asking for your ideas – and look forward to hearing more of them. However, as I was making my “rounds” this afternoon it dawned on me that I’d not put A, and B, and C together of something I’ve been experimenting with lately – and thought I’d take a minute and put it “on paper” and see what it might elicit from regular visitors.
A few weeks ago I posted saying that it would be wonderful if more of our folks were blogging. I think this is a great way to create space(s) for engagement and support. One thing I would like to discourage (and Lyngine and I have been passing notes about this in a similar vein) is the all too common practice of OC/IC bloggers pointing to blogs of other churches – Episcopalians, Romans, etc. My reasoning here is simple – it gives the very strong impressin that we have nothing of our own to contribute, that we have no ideas of our own, and that we are lacking in inter-OC/IC engagement. The thing is – there is some truth to this sense of the state of things – but only a little. Most of our conversation goes on behind the scenes, in ones and twos and rarely is it “connected” – blogging is a way to connect with one another.
So how do we move away from talking about what the other churches think (just another form of reactionary response) to talking about, exploring ideas and issues that are inimical to our own experience of the faith? One thing I’ve found helpful recently is to troll the religion stories in various media and to write about the underlying themes and isses of those stories that grab my attention – explicitly from an OC/IC perspective, and (where possible) without any reference to another denomonation.
Keep those ideas coming.
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