Posts Tagged ‘ bloggernacle ’

By now you’ve probably seen the Wheaties/Tarefic award winners, and I hope also the resulting argument between fMh and BCC about who deserved to win the coveted Best Big Blog award, and what it really meant. (If you haven’t seen the argument posts, do yourself a favor and check them out. They’re hilarious!) The purpose [...]

There are many on the internet publishing information about our faith, often not very flattering.  Some of that information is faith-shaking.  But where does it cross the line into being “anti-Mormon”?  Some would say that anyone who says anything that is not uplifting or faith promoting is anti-Mormon, but that seems like a pretty low [...]

Voting has now concluded.  We hope you have all enjoyed this year’s effort.  Wheaties award winners are cordially invited to use this button: Best Big Blog: Feminist Mormon Housewives Best group blog: Doves and Serpents Best Humorous Blog: Sistas in Zion Best solo blog: Keepapitchinin by Ardis Parshall Best new blog: Peculiar People Best blog [...]

Voting for the 2012 Tarefic/Wheaties Awards has begun. You may click the selections to view the links as many times as you wish.

We wanted to give you an update on the Wheaties and Tarefic Awards!  This way, you can tell us what we forgot and we can wrangle over the issues before the voting starts next week.  Feel free to continue nominations for one more week!  Here are the nominations so far, and you can check out [...]

We would like to introduce two new Bloggernacle awards:  (1) The Wheaties, and (2) the Tarefic Awards!  This is the opportunity to honor the unique and talented Mormon bloggers of 2012. It’s a chance to look back on the  year and remember the great things that happened in the Bloggernacle, to come together in a [...]

On the affirmative side, closed groups for comments, questions and discussion have drawn away huge numbers of commenters from a number of sites on all spectrums. In addition, the feedback, comment structure and immediacy seem to appeal to many. On the con side, well, who is arguing against this point? Other than the fact that [...]

THE DOCTOR: Colonel Manton, I want you to tell your men to run away. COLONEL MANTON: What? THE DOCTOR: Those words. “Run away.” I want you to be famous for those exact words. I want people to call you Colonel Runaway. I want children laughing outside your door, ’cause they’ve found the house of Colonel [...]

I haven’t been around as much here because I’ve been working on something new. Hawkgrrrl and I were discussing recently that you might be interested, so here’s an introduction. Meet Real Intent.

Two years ago today on October 4, 2010, we launched the blog Wheat & Tares.  We wanted to celebrate by sharing some fun stats and putting together a list of our top ten posts to date to share with you, our esteemed audience and debate partners. First, some stats – whether fun or not is [...]

For the past week we’ve discussed what we believe Wheat & Tares contributes to the larger dialogue about the Mormon faith, exposing parts of a conversation that has been occurring behind the scenes for weeks. Hawk has articulated who we are with guidelines that we’ll post to the site permanently. Andrew has shared his views [...]

Can we create a safe zone for discussion without excluding folks who believe differently?

A blog often asks these types of questions: Who is our audience? How do we attract them?  What will our community look like?  Who’s in and who’s out?  How can we be inclusive, yet create belonging? What’s our intention toward our audience? To change minds?  To learn from others?  What types of discussions do we [...]

Recent articles in the media have pointed to the study of church history as being key to the loss of faith. What role does it actually play?

Today’s guest post is by long-time commenter Paul. You can find his own blog at http://www.alatterdayvoice.blogspot.com/ The bloggernacle, the world of LDS blogging, became just a little smaller for me last week. I had lunch with jmb275, a W&T perma. It was great to put a name and face with a blogger id. Thanks to [...]

A recent online group made by YSA in the UK provides a way in which witty comments and cynicism can promote change.

This is the 2nd part of a multi-part series on the factions and fractures of Mormon Blogging. Please read Part 1 first here. Good Guys and Bad Guys? Up to this point, I’ve mostly focused on the Bloggernacle (particularly with respect to major personalities and metonyms like By Common Consent and Steve Evans) and its [...]

I love music! And sometimes songs can say more in a few short lines than I could in 10 different posts. There’s always been a tug-o-war in the b’nacle between various personalities. I think there are three primary personalities in the ‘nacle represented nicely by the following three songs (complete with links to cool YouTube [...]

This post is the first in a series. Find the later parts 2, 3 and 4 in the coming weeks… My Naive Beginnings When I first started Mormon blogging, I thought the field was pretty simple. I thought the Mormon blogging world was summed up by one word: Bloggernacle. To be sure, from even my [...]

It’s been nearly four months since Mormon Matters functionally disbanded and Wheat & Tares was created, and already, it feels like a new tenuous equilibrium has set. While I for one can’t help but feel that the transition has divided our tribe in a way that makes it difficult (if not impossible) for us ever [...]