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Autumn Book Club

TO DAY IS The beginning of the Autumn Book Club’s reading of Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism.

Blogging with us, we have:
Lee
Sally
Fr Gregory
Fr Ernesto
Fr Peter
Zara
Sare

The full reading schedule is posted for any and all who want to read along. Please be sure and whip around to everyone’s blog and participate as you are able. I will be making up a massed RSS feed, but that’s a new project for me. May take some time.

Welcome everyone!

(Sare: you don’t seem to have you’re own feed. Holly and Cam’s posts are part of it, as well.)

For Fellow Travellers (reading and participating but not blogging), we’ve got Darrell, Margaret, James and Lily.

Anyone else?

Please, everyone, make an introductory post sharing anything you wish. Post it sometime today. Even if you’ve been journaling online for a while (since 1995 or so, here) make this introductory comment as if no one has ever read about you before. As far as I know, most of the blogging participants have had little contact with each other.

As I was explaining to Lee last Sunday at Church: the reason the blogging is distributed is so we can all participate without anyone looking like the “Centre” or the “Main Blogger”. Your comments on your blog are yours… your comments on someone else’s blog are your reaction to them. Each of us is host, none of us is teacher. Enjoy the process as much as the reading: if it becomes too much work, remember the reading schedule is just to keep us all on the same page. Post a day or two later, and don’t worry about it. If you miss two post dates, however, or intend to drop out, please let the rest of us know!

A further suggestion: please add all of us to your prayer lists, keep us in communion as well as e-contact with each other.

Huw wroted this on September 15th, 2008

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3 Responses to “Autumn Book Club”

Fr. Peter Preble
September 15th, 2008 at 8:18 am

Huw,

This is the second time I am trying this seems I cannot add! Anyway, I think you can create an RSS group in google reader or at least a sharing group kind of thing, that might work for this project.

Fr. Ernesto
September 15th, 2008 at 9:22 am

I am looking forward to this group. This is my first serious attempt at this type of book club and blogging. Personally, I have been “wanting” to dig more into patristic mysticism, and this looks to be a wonderful way to do it.

Sare Gordy
September 16th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

Okey dokey then.

I know, I know. I share the RSS feed for my work blog with the other two members of the pastoral staff of my church. Good news: they don’t blog much. (Tho I am trying to change that. It’s a work in progress.) I’m thinking of xposting with my lj, but I’d prefer commentary to be on my work blog.

That being said, I finally posted my introductory bit. Oops. Sorry about that. But as for reading everyone else’s, as Fr. Peter pointed out, I just loaded all of the RSS feeds into my google reader and made a ‘book group’ group, so that works well enough.

I’ve never done a blogging book group either, but I’m game.

See you all around.