And what good is blogging?

Ages ago in  "blog time" (that's about a month) Beth wrote a blog entry, called "Blogging as Professional Development." Not too long later, when I was talking with Cindy about my upcoming work next year as an intern at Fairfax Community Church, and expressing the (at this point, mild) stress of thinking about writing sermons, she said I had no excuse - I had lots of sermon material already at hand.

This lead me to think about what blogging means to my professional career (which, at this point is simply my career as a seminarian) and what it means to be a blogging professional. In her post, Beth talks about reflection, and how blogging allows for the expression of what comes from reflection about experiences, or new learning. 

There are an increasing number of religious leaders who blog, although most are relatively young. But it's interesting to watch what they write, and how, and why. And it will be interesting to watch whether or not, and how, my blogging changes as I move forward on this path. And it will also be interesting to see how we all, as blogging religious professionals, interact with each other in this medium.

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