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Wednesday, June 18, 2003 |
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Never thought about this before, but it is rather ironic.
"Southern Baptists have regularly invited sitting Republican presidents to speak at their annual convention. They did not extend invitations to the last two Democrats, however, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, who, ironically, both worshipped in Southern Baptist churches."
Of course, those two presidents came from a Southern Baptist background that grew and flourished in its abilities to tolerate and benefit from theological diversity. A while back, the smug president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary wrote an article on how Bill Clinton is an example of the "results" of the "former" Southern Baptist climate; that his moral failings were the result of the "liberal" Baptist upbringings. I was disgusted then, and still am, when I think of that blanket condemnation of generations of loving, caring Christians who choose not to spew hatred and intolerance. Even those who agree with many of the more theologically conservative viewpoints have been opposed to the "we have the answers, and THE right Biblical perspective" attitudes of many present day SBC leaders. They also abhor the unChristian treatment dished out by Mission Board executives who have been on a campaign of "cleaning house" for more than a decade. There's a world of difference in being theologically conservative and being so with the extra "requirements" added that there's room only for a very narrowly prescribed set of interpretative approaches to the Bible (one, which, conveniently enough, fits the agenda and the tactics of the present leadership)
10:53:03 AM 
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JOHO (David weinberger) has this reference today (see my commentary below):
The Boston Globe today runs an article by Hiawatha Bray in the Business Section on the Weblogs Business Strategy conference last week: Consider:
Every business needs to know what its employees know. Companies are crammed with experts on various topics whose knowledge goes to waste - because nobody knows what they know. Now give these workers an internal corporate blog, and encourage them to use it. Let them natter away on every topic that intrigues them. Harvest and index the results. You've mapped your workers' brains. With a few keystrokes, a manager can find out who's been blogging about skiing or bowling or restoring classic cars - just the thing when you're trying to sell something to an avid collector of '64 Mustangs. The company's hidden experts will cheerfully reveal themselves, and the firm's institutional memory gets an upgrade.
By the way, the link above will decay in a day or two. And, in any case, you won't get to see the big photo in the paper version of me and Doc.
Another Cluetrainish insight for companies and organizations (like , the kind I'm interested in: the Churches). Harvest the "natterings" of multiple bloggers. Of course , one's first steps are to provide the "peer group joining mechanism" by providing a place for blogs to be created and grow, and let the enthusiasm discovered therein grow and create new Weblog-experts, who in turn can help the process of aggregation of these new sources of knowledge (not really new sources, but newly DISCOVERED sources)
9:33:39 AM
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