AUGUST
18, 2003
 CULTURE
Screeds and creeds: blogging on faith
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Massachusetts
Institute of Technology graduate student researcher Cameron Marlow is researching
the dynamics of idea diffusion through blogs. Contact 617-253-5127, cameron@media.mit.edu.
• Known as a co-author of the best-selling business book The
Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual
(Perseus, 2000), David Weinberger most recently wrote Small
Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web (Perseus, 2002),
which describes the World Wide Web as a new system for providing information
and for humans working together. He lives in the Boston area. Contact 617-738-8323,
self@evident.com.
• David Heddle is a nuclear physicist and youth worker who blogs He
Lives in Hollis, N.H. He is a moderator of the Apologia blog group at blogs4god.
Contact 603-886-0151, heddle@fbyg.org.
IN
THE EAST
• Tom Kreitzberg, a Catholic in Silver Spring, Md., blogs at Disputations
and Praying the
Post. Contact capaxdei@post.com.
• Peter Johnstone
is a New York artist and Buddhist who blogs at Revelator.org.
Contact 917-501-4120, pjohnst@revelator.org.
• Chuck Holton is a stockbroker in Damascus, Md., and his book A More
Elite Soldier: Pursuing a Life of Purpose (Multnomah, 2003), explores his
years as an elite Army Ranger and his Christian faith. His blog is Mission4Me.
• Jon W. Anderson teaches anthropology at Catholic University of America
in Washington, D.C., and is a co-editor of New Media in the Muslim World:
The Emerging Public Sphere (Indiana University Press, 2003). Contact 202-319-5999
(office), 202-319-5080 (department), anderson@cua.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
• Mark Byron blogs
from an evangelical Christian perspective in central Florida. Contact byronm@warner.edu.
• William Sims Bainbridge is deputy director of the Division
of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National
Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. He has published extensively on religion,
sociology and cyberspace. Contact 703-292-7470 (office), 703-292-8930 (department),
wbainbri@nsf.gov.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Steve Beard is the vice president of Good
News, the Wilmore, Ky.,-based evangelical reform movement within United
Methodism, and he maintains Thunderstruck,
a religiously eclectic blog and digest of news on religion and popular culture.
Contact 859-858-4661, steve@goodnewsmag.org.
• Kevin Fritts is a Wilmore, Ky., web designer who converted from evangelical
Protestantism to Orthodox Christianity. He blogs at Decimation
and Reconstruction.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Andrew Chen is a graduate student in computer science at Michigan State
University in East Lansing, Mich., whose blog AndrewSW.com
includes the section "Religion,
Philosophy and the Nature of Truth." Contact 517-353-6906.
• Amy Welborn is a Catholic who has written eight books and who blogs
in northern Indiana. Contact amywelborn@yahoo.com.
• Andrew Careaga has written three books and follows trends on religion
and the Internet. He blogs at bloggedyblog.
Contact 573-341-4183, Andrew@kregel.com.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• Douglas Groothuis teaches at Denver Seminary and has written extensively
on evangelical Christianity and culture, including The Soul in Cyberspace
(Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1999). Contact 303-762-6895, douglas.groothuis@denverseminary.edu.
• Eric Siegmund blogs The
Fire Ant Gazette from Midland, Texas, and describes himself as a conservative,
born-again Christian. Contact info@ericsiegmund.com.
• The Thinklings
is an evangelical Christian group blog on religion and culture. Many of its
contributors live in Texas.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Brad
Boydston is pastor of Cornerstone
Covenant Church in Turlock, Calif., who blogs at blog.boydston.us.
Contact 209-667-6768, brad@boydston.us.
• Al-Muhajabah is a 30-year-old American convert to Islam in the Seattle
area who is studying to be a paralegal and who keeps three blogs.
The blog veiled4Allah
links to other Muslim blogs. Contact webmaster@muhajabah.com.
• Jordon Cooper, pastor of Lakeland
Community Church in Spiritwood, Saskatchewan, Canada, blogs at www.jordoncooper.com.
He says he recently received insulting email and pornographic spam in response
to his posted opinions about gay marriage. Contact him at the church, 306-668-1308,
coop@jordoncooper.com.
• Justin Baeder is starting Seattle
Metro Church. His blog is Radical
Congruency. Contact 206-325-0663, justin@BaederResources.com.
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