I found the two different timelines at Time is Ticking on #UMC Tipping Point on social issues to be interesting Jason celebrates the beginning of a new appointive year and lessons learned at 2 to Tangle!
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One key to restarting this blog is to more actively listen to others who are writing to similar audiences. Since the death of Google Reader, I have not kept up with blogs. Last week I downloaded Leaf – The News Reader and have subscribed to the following blogs: Great Plains Conference Bloggers Adam Hamilton Now […]
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Blog Reboot: Brain Dump of Titles (3 of 4)
I am in the process of rebooting my blog and want to share the process with you. I started with a tool that helps me succeed at anything, defined a target audience and now want to share a brain dump of some possible upcoming blog posts. Which of these do you find interesting? Helpful? Ridiculous? […]
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Blog Reboot: An Ideal Target Person (2 of 4)
I have been using Lift as a tool to help restart this blog and I thought I would share with you some of that process. One of the steps is identifying an ideal target person – someone for whom this blog is written. So, here goes: The ideal target person for this blog is Methodist […]
I recently wrote a post about my hope that by blogging I will contributing to a middle way / extreme center theological position online. Kim left a comment asking what exactly that means. Here is a summary from our Bishop, Scott Jones, describing the extreme center in Adam Hamilton’s book, Christianity’s Family Tree: What Other Christians Believe and […]
It has been 649 days since my last blog post. Much has changed since then. Our children are 3 and 2, respectively. I switched from WordPress.com to a WordPress installation, thereby starting over on traffic and links. I am beginning my third year as the pastor appointed to serve First UMC of El Dorado, KS. […]
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Blog Anniversary – 5 Years
I published the first post on this blog five years ago. At that time I was using blogger.com as the platform and was thinking about using it as a tool to communicate with the congregation for whom I cared. A lot has changed since then, but some things have stayed the same: I hope that […]
There have been many opinions shared about how Google+ (a new social network from Google) has had an impact on the online social media scene. People have posited that Google+ will eventually cause people to leave another network. I posted about this possibility myself. http://twitter.com/#!/andrewconard/status/89782495683428352 After conversation with a good friend, I realized that there […]
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Speedlinking – August 27, 2010
“Falling with Style” Still a Goal – I hope to be able to fall with style as well. My District Superintendent is blogging a return trip to Vietnam after 40 years away at The Year of the Metal Dog. Why Innovation Thrives at the Mayo Clinic could be replicated in churches. Brilliant work at Internet […]
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What You are Searching For – 2Q
These are the top search terms over the past quarter that lead to viewing my blog – http://andrewconard.com. What does this list tell you about this blog or about searching people do on the internet? Search Views immanent trinity 125 methodist hymns for funerals 79 church attire 72 methodist funeral hymns 63 proper church attire […]
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Blog Recommendation: Bill Gepford
Bill Gepford is serving as the summer intern with Resurrection Online. It has been great working with him over the past few weeks and I look forward to the rest of the time that we are able to work together. Bill finished his first year at Perkins School of Theology and will be returning there […]
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What do you want?
I enjoy writing on this blog and want to be intentional about asking what you want as a reader. Will you please share: What kind of posts on this blog do you enjoy? What is a topic that you would like to have me address? What questions do you have about faith, life or ministry? […]
Rev. Andrew Conard 