{"id":627,"date":"2009-04-07T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=627"},"modified":"2009-04-07T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T02:07:00","slug":"new-official-blogging-and-blogging-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.gajunkie.com\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"New Official Blogging And Blogging Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>First, it appears that we will have another blogging Moderator:&nbsp; The Rev. Stafford Carson of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firstportadown.org\/\">First Presbyterian Church of Portadown<\/a>, Northern Ireland, has begun a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.staffordcarson.com\/\">pastor&#8217;s blog<\/a>.&nbsp; (h\/t <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/seanmichaellucas.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/stafford-carson.html\">Sean Michael Lucas<\/a>)&nbsp; For a G.A. Junkie, this will become more interesting in early June when Rev. Carson will be installed as the Moderator of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\/assembly\/index.html\">General Assembly<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianireland.org\">Presbyterian Church in Ireland<\/a>.&nbsp; We will have to see the balance that he strikes between the parish and the denominational work.&nbsp; 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 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mod.reyes-chow.com\/\">moderatorial blogging<\/a> out from his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reyes-chow.com\/\">personal<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.missionbaycc.org\/\">parish<\/a> blogging.<\/p>\n<p>(And we are still waiting for an RSS feed from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/\">Church of Scotland<\/a> for their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/news\/newsmodblog.htm\">Moderator&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Second, for a while now we have had the entertaining and enlightening blog <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/beingpresbyterian.ca\/\">Being Presbyterian<\/a> by Colin Carmichael from the main office of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/\">Presbyterian Church in Canada<\/a>.&nbsp; Now, while more of a news feed than a blog, there is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/pcconnect\/daily\">PC-Connect Daily<\/a> to which you can <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterian.ca\/subscribe\">subscribe<\/a> by either e-mail or RSS.&nbsp; Interesting stuff from a Presbyterian branch that is taking new technology seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a blog that is not new itself but is new to me&#8230;&nbsp; I have been doing some research to try to get myself up to speed on the Presbyterian Church in Australia.&nbsp; I&#8217;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.&nbsp; To some extent this may be due to an interesting de-centralization of that branch to the state level.&nbsp; But one interesting RSS feed I did find was for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pyv.org.au\/\">Presbyterian Youth in Victoria<\/a>.&nbsp; It is pretty much a news feed with upcoming events but some are interesting, like the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pyv.org.au\/news\/news-item\/article\/fuelled-training-day-cheltenham-83.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=54&amp;cHash=7a65ef91b6\">Fuelled Training Day<\/a> and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/pyv.org.au\/news\/news-item\/article\/short-course-on-youth-ministry-82.html?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=54&amp;cHash=eae0b4a085\">Short Course on Youth Ministry<\/a>.&nbsp; My youngest was interested in their summer camp since that is our winter, such as winter is in Southern California anyway. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Youth, I see that the announcement for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.churchofscotland.org.uk\/youngpeople\/ypyoung.htm#nya\">2009 National Youth Assembly of the Church of Scotland<\/a> has been posted.&nbsp; Since this event is Web 2.0 intensive I would expect an official blog for it like the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nya2008.wordpress.com\/\">NYA 2008 blog<\/a>, but I can&#8217;t locate it yet. 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