As an aside, I’d like to mention a peculiar conceit of my own: Those of us who work with children, regardless of chronological age, are often quite young. Maybe y’all should consider using us for guinea pigs more often!

With thanks to you all for the work you do that so greatly enhances and supports our work…

Ms T — The age demographic was mostly middle-aged, plus one person who is even more senior than I (gasp). The youngest was maybe 30. One fact that helped this group is to learn that the New York Times uses blogging software extensively. The Times just has such a place in US UU hearts, no matter what part of the country.

Don — That’s great that you and your minister are onto this! I think your concern is legit, but I’d say run with your minister’s energy, and then when you have time, see if you can find other leaders who have potential. Maybe in a few months my church will have a blog or two you can point to. And I second Scott’s suggestion. I’m thinking about doing a “Blogging Church” Adult RE session at some point.

My thought at the moment is to set up a Minister’s Blog, and try to do it in a framework where it will be easy to add more blogs for our church (Relig Ed, Social Justice, etc. etc.) in the future. One thing that worries me about this approach is that the Minister’s Blog may set an expectation that other blogs would be similar, thus inhibiting possible blogs like a Social Justice group blog.

Advice?

In general, I’ve found that when I mention my blog to Baby Boomers or Institutionalists, they think that I’m listing personal details of my life online and that I spend huge amounts of my life chronicling my breakfast habits (or sex life) online.