7/17/06

"Yearly God" conference of religious blogging liberals in Montclair NJ

NJ Jewish News On-line religious liberals plan meeting for Montclair:

Religion, liberalism, and Web savvy are the watchwords of the first Progressive Faith Blog Con, a convention to be held over the July 14 weekend in the Conference Center at Montclair State University.

Jews and Christians, Buddhists and Muslims, and at least one self-proclaimed pagan will gather to continue in person the kinds of conversations they wage on-line as authors of blogs, the Web diaries that range from the queasily personal to the politically influential.

Like the “Yearly Kos,” a convention of liberal political bloggers that drew Democratic heavyweights to Las Vegas last month, the Montclair “con” will feature discussions on using the participants’ Web sites and chat rooms as agents of social and political change in a liberal — and in this case, religious — framework.

The Conference Blog is at http://progfaithblogcon.blogsome.com/ and the organizer has amassed the relevant links here http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/.

[*Including Therevada Buddhists? Then we will have to change our headline.]


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