Conference schedule!
At long last, here’s the official schedule for the Prog Faith Blog Con! Naturally conference attendees will get copies of this when the con rolls around, but we wanted to make it available beforehand, to give folks a foretaste of just how terrific this is going to be.
If you’d like to download it, it’s available in .pdf format here.
Our deepest thanks go to everyone who helped us wrangle this schedule into shape, and especially to everyone who volunteered to lead worship or serve on a panel! We couldn’t do this without you.
If you haven’t registered, do register now to ensure a place at this fabulous gathering.With no further ado…the schedule!
Schedule for the First Annual Progressive Faith Blog Con, 2006!
| FRIDAY 7/14 | What’s happening? | Led by: |
| Afternoon | Check-in | Volunteers |
| 7pm | Welcome | The planning committee |
| 7:15pm | Jewish worship | Rachel Barenblat (Velveteen Rabbi), Andrew Schamess ( Semitism.net), and Harriet Goren |
| 8:15pm | Blogger dinner & social gathering | (Meal included in conference registration fee; vegetarian options available) |
| SATURDAY, 7/14 | What’s happening? | Led by: |
| 8am | Buddhist meditation | Lorianne DiSabato of Hoarded Ordinaries |
| 9am | Kick off the morning’s events! | The planning committee |
| 9:15-10:30am | Panel 1: Roots and Branches: The Nature of Our Community.
* Ecumenical and interfaith blogging engagement * Challenges and blessings of pluralism * Engaging those more conservative than we |
Rachel Barenblat ( Velveteen Rabbi, Chris Tessone ( Even the Devils Believe), Emily Ronald ( The Pluralism Project, Hussein Rashid (Islamicate) |
| 10:45-11:30am | First Breakout Session: Faith Affiliation/Interest
* Jewish blogosphere * Christian blogosphere * Buddhist blogosphere * Islamic blogosphere * Pagan blogosphere (if there’s sufficient interest) |
Judaism: Rachel Barenblat ( Velveteen Rabbi, Christianity: Chris Walton ( Philocrites), Buddhism: Lorianne DiSabato ( Hoarded Ordinaries, Islam: Hussein Rashid (Islamicate), Paganism: Emily Ronald |
| 11:30am-12:15pm | Second Breakout Session: Topical Interest
* Blogging scripture * Blogging ritual * Blogging meditation |
Scripture: Rabbi Jill Jacobs (JSpot and Radical Torah), Ritual: Chris Tessone ( Even the Devils Believe), Meditation: Lorianne DiSabato ( Hoarded Ordinaries.) |
| 12:15-1pm | Lunch break! | (Lunch is covered by registration fees; vegetarian options will again be available.) |
| 1-2pm | Panel 2: Talking Tech
* Increasing site traffic * CSS, podcasting, and new software * Building our internal network |
Chris Walton (Philocrites), Steve Rockwell (CrossLeft, Michelle Murrain (Pearlbear’s Blog). |
| 2:15-3:45pm | Panel 3: Faith and Politics: A Path to Engagement
* Relating faith and political action * Blogging and its place in the history of progressive faith activism * Faith is bigger than partisan affiliation |
Thurman Hart ( XPatriated Texan), Mik Moore ( JSpot), Bruce Wilson ( Talk 2 Action |
| 4-5:30pm | Breakout Sessions 3 & 4
Two rotations of 45 minutes each, with the same 3 topics each rotation. Attendees get to do two of the three. * International relations / war on terror / peace * Poverty and hunger in the US * Responding to the religious right |
Int’l relations: RJ ( Huffington Post, Andrew Schamess (Semitism.net); Poverty: Nathan Newman Progressive States Network; Religious right: Bruce Wilson (Talk 2 Action), the Interfaith Alliance, and Jennifer Butler (Faith in Public Life.) |
| 5:30-6:30pm | Free time! | Enjoy yourself! |
| 6:30-8:15pm | Dinner break | (Dinner is on our own) |
| 8:30pm | Muslim zhikr (prayer), followed by discussion/Q-and-A | Hussein Rashid (Islamicate) |
| 9pm | Roundtable: What Does Progressive Faith Mean? | Don’t miss the roundtable, featuring three fabulous speakers: Reverend Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Baptist, Pastor Dan Schultz of Street Prophets, and Rabbi Arthur Waskow of The Shalom Center. You can read all three of their bios here. |
| 10pm on | Latenight gathering (open-mike/music/storytelling - tell the panel organizers if you want to join in!) | Emily Ronald, Bruce Wilson (Talk 2 Action) |
| SUNDAY 7/16 | What’s happening? | Led by: |
| Early | Brunch | (This meal comes free with a stay at the conference hotel) |
| 10:30am | Christian worship | Chris Tessone (Even the Devils Believe, Mata H. ( Time’s Fool), Michelle Murrain ( Pearlbear’s Blog.) |
| 11:30am | Brainstorming session: Where do we go from here? | The planning committee |
| 12:15am | Closing circle and goodbyes | The planning committee again |
Technorati tags: religion, politics, progfaithblogcon.
Wish I’d known about the conference before today! I hope this will be a regular thing - I’m sorry to have to miss it. I suppose a lot of it will end up posted….
:)
Comment by Rabbi Alana Suskin — July 12, 2006 @ 3:20 pm
I’m sorry you didn’t know about it, too; it would have been such a pleasure to meet in person. Well, perhaps next year.
(And yes, we hope a lot will be posted, both on this blog and on other participants’ blogs. I assume that once all is said and done, we’ll post a roundup of as many conference-related posts as we can find…)
Comment by Rachel — July 12, 2006 @ 7:44 pm
any upcoming conferences for 2007?
Comment by Stephanie — May 1, 2007 @ 6:24 am