New Official Blogging And Blogging Officials

There have been a couple of notable additions to the world of Presbyterian Blogging in the last month or two that I wanted to pass on to you.

First, it appears that we will have another blogging Moderator:  The Rev. Stafford Carson of First Presbyterian Church of Portadown, Northern Ireland, has begun a pastor’s blog.  (h/t Sean Michael Lucas)  For a G.A. Junkie, this will become more interesting in early June when Rev. Carson will be installed as the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.  We will have to see the balance that he strikes between the parish and the denominational work.  If nothing else, I am curious if the work of the Moderator of the PC Ireland takes as much time as the Moderator of the GA of the PCUSA who has broken his moderatorial blogging out from his personal and parish blogging.

(And we are still waiting for an RSS feed from the Church of Scotland for their Moderator’s Blog.)

Second, for a while now we have had the entertaining and enlightening blog Being Presbyterian by Colin Carmichael from the main office of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.  Now, while more of a news feed than a blog, there is PC-Connect Daily to which you can subscribe by either e-mail or RSS.  Interesting stuff from a Presbyterian branch that is taking new technology seriously.

Finally, a blog that is not new itself but is new to me…  I have been doing some research to try to get myself up to speed on the Presbyterian Church in Australia.  I’ll get that packaged up at some point, but in looking through the various sites I have found very little in the way of RSS feeds and e-mail updates available.  To some extent this may be due to an interesting de-centralization of that branch to the state level.  But one interesting RSS feed I did find was for Presbyterian Youth in Victoria.  It is pretty much a news feed with upcoming events but some are interesting, like the Fuelled Training Day and the Short Course on Youth Ministry.  My youngest was interested in their summer camp since that is our winter, such as winter is in Southern California anyway.

Speaking of Youth, I see that the announcement for the 2009 National Youth Assembly of the Church of Scotland has been posted.  Since this event is Web 2.0 intensive I would expect an official blog for it like the NYA 2008 blog, but I can’t locate it yet. But keep watching because I am sure it will appear soon.

3 thoughts on “New Official Blogging And Blogging Officials

  1. Steve Post author

    Mr. Clarkson,
    You are correct that the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has a blog. And I regularly read it.

    I apologize if my throw-away comment caused confusion, but it is a bit of a standing joke among a few of us that his “blog” is more of a web diary and does not have a syndication feed in RSS or Atom as most blogs do.  A bit of a technical distinction and there are some that would not consider it a blog without those.

    None the less, I do appreciate the time and energy the Rt. Rev. Lunan puts into his web comments and I hope that the Rev. Hewitt continues the tradition.

    Thanks for keeping me accountable.

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  2. John McClean Post author

    Just came across your blog. I teach theology at the seminary (as you’d call it in the US) of the PC New South Wales which is the largest of the state Presbyterian churches in Australia in the state with Sydney as capital. I don’ know anyone who does live posts from our state GA which is 13-17 July this year. I am not going to be there, but could put you in touch with someone who could give you some updates if you want.

    Happy to answer questions about PCA (that’s Australia).

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