Progressive Faith Con Blog

Last weekend three folks from the first Progressive Faith Blog Con gathered for a sweet reason — the baptism of PFBC co-founder Thurman’s twin sons. The boys were baptized at an Episcopal church in Secaucus, and for a special twist, they received Jewish and Muslim blessings from Rachel and Hussein. Progressive faith in action!

Thurman wrote about the experience here; Rachel’s post is online here.

Now I’m looking especially forward to the next con — is it summer ‘08 yet?

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Months of radio silence, and suddenly two posts in one day — go figure!  

Consider this a PSA. If you’re interested in keeping abreast of PFBC developments, there are two ways you can do that:

• Obviously you can read this blog, either by visiting the site regularly or subscribing to our RSS feed.

• And/or, you can join the ProgFaithBlogCon google group.

The google group currently has pretty low email traffic, and I expect that will continue to be the case until next spring when we ramp up to PFBC II (Electric Boogaloo!), but it’s a great place for conversations about what we want the next con to be.

This is not the google group for conference planners — so never fear, you won’t be spammed with planning details. (Unless that sounds like fun to you. In which case, have you thought about joining the planning committee? :-) 

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Hi, all! After much conversation on the conference-planning email list which was established at the first blog con last summer, we’ve decided that the PBFC will be a biennial event, so we’re planning to hold our second conference in summer of 2008. Those of us who are active in domestic political work will be ramping up to the next Presidential election, and hopefully it will be a great time to gather, share learning and ideas and meals again, and energize ourselves for all of the various forms of progressive religious and political work that we do.

The conference website has been updated to show that the next con will be in ‘08. Meanwhile, if you’re interested in joining the planning committee, let us know! We’ve got a great core group of volunteers, but we’re always happy to have more hands on deck.

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