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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Changes at Emerging Women
I am happy to announce that the long awaited changes here at Emerging Women have finally arrived. I'm excited to be moving ahead with this community and look forward to our future conversations. Most of the Emerging Women members already know about these changes, but for the broader community of readers, here's a summary of what's happening and why.

- From now on, Emerging Women will exist exclusively at the domain www.emergingwomen.us. Some of you may already be using this address, but until now it simply forwarded to the blogspot site. We will no longer be hosted at Blogger and are happy to have a cleaner more navigable site, so please update your links!

- The continued growth of Emerging Women means that we can no longer function as a membership based blog - there's just too many of us! But we will continue to be as open source as possible. We still want the blog to represent the voices and thoughts of a wide variety of women, so we are looking for your submissions. We are still looking for articles, book/movie reviews, stories, interviews, creative writings, questions, resources, links, and news items to share on the blog. So feel free to send those submissions at any time to emergingwomen(at)gmail(dot)com.

- But even without membership, Emerging Women desires to be a resource helping connect those in the emerging church to the women's voices in its midst. We will continue to have two blogrolls for this purpose. One will feature any (appropriate) emerging woman blogger who wants to be on the list. The other will include any websites, organizations, or men's blogs who want to be "friends of emerging women." The point is to connect us all together.

- All of the old posts will be at the new blog. It just might take some time to update the author info on each one.

I'm excited to see how the conversation develops and look forward to reconnecting with all of you at the new site!

- Julie Clawson

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Blogging Invitation
I wanted to pass on an blogging opportunity from Rachelle Mee-Chapman to the community here -


Hello! We might have already met at an Emergent Convention, or at your blog or mine (Urban Abbess or Magpie Girl). Now I’m the contributing editor for Religion and Spirituality at BlogHer.com I'm trying to rustle up great posts to feature in my Monday column on Religion and Spirituality.


I've been following your blog for awhile now, and was wondering if you'd like to be on my mailing list of Spirituality Writers. It's a select group of bloggers, and I’d love to have you along. You wouldn’t get a ton of email from me. I would just send out periodic requests for gridblog participation on a given topic. Then I would feature some of the most relevant posts on BlogHer, and maybe at my personal blog as well.


If that sounds interesting to you, reply to this email and ask me to include you on the Spirituality Writers mailing list. I'd love to have you along for the journey.


Shalom,

Rachelle Mee-Chapman

Contributing Editor, BlogHer.com

http://www.blogher.com/blog/rachelle-mee-chapman


P.s. Please feel free to pass this email along to women bloggers you love, even if they only write occasionally about religion and/or spirituality.


Rachelle Mee-Chapman

moi (at) magpie-girl (dot) com

http://www.magpie-girl.com

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Book Club Update
Our book discussion of Forever and Ever, Amen will resume next Tues -- I have been simply trying to keep my head above water this week.

I would love ideas and suggestions from all you about how to go at this discussion and future ones so as many as possible feel engaged and interested. What kinds of questions are on your heart that you'd like to see explored through our book discussions? What, if anything, is preventing from engaging with the books and ideas? Would you like a break from book discussions for a while to focus on the interviews of emerging women instead? This is a safe place, so any feedback is very welcome.

Thank you all for being you, for your beautiful questioning hearts, for being about God's being in the world!

--Jemila

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Thursday, January 17, 2008
Upcoming at Emerging Women
So we have passed the holidays and from what I have heard many of us are still in recovery mode. I know things have been slow around here recently as life has taken priority over cyberdiscussions, but I hope that we can gain momentum and jump back into more conversations soon. As the last year drew to an end some of you gave your opinions on things you would like to see here at Emerging Women which I want to mention today.

Gatherings
I hope that the small gatherings can continue around the country to help women connect with each other. This is up to you guys to instigate and so far they have been great successes.

The Northwest Emerging Women have their Convergence gathering in February which I highly recommend anyone to attend (I had an amazing time last year). Other gathering are still in the works but no concrete plans are set as of yet.

Interviews
But one suggestion that I want to institute as soon as possible is that of hearing the stories of Emerging Women from around the world. The idea would be to collect interviews from women we admire who are out there making a difference. I'm not talking just about "famous" women, but any women we can learn from and by inspired by. I am envisioning simple email interviews that will be posted here in multiple installments. And while I think it would be great to hear stories from all sorts of women, I would like to limit it (at first at least) to women who are connected in some way (however small) to the emerging church. We so rarely get to hear the stories of these women and I would love to bring the presence of women in this conversation into greater focus.

So what I am asking from you all here are three things -
1. Who would you like to hear from? Name whoever you want.
2. What sort of basic questions would you like asked of these women?
3. And are you willing to contact the people you know and conduct the interview? (we can work out details later)

I am excited about this and can't wait to start hearing the stories of these women.


Book Discussions

And I know we are a bit behind in announcing the upcoming selections for our Tuesday Book Club discussion, but here is the list for the next few months. We have chosen somewhat lighter fare from a diversity of perspectives and all selections are available at the Emerging Women Resource Store. Once again we are looking for volunteers to lead select weeks of the discussions. If you are interested, leave a comment or email emergingwomen@gmail.com. I look forward to exploring these books with you all here.

February - Forever and Ever, Amen: Becoming a Nun in the Sixties by Sister Karol Jackowski

March - A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

April - The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs

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Saturday, December 29, 2007
As The Year Ends
As 2007 draws to a close, I've been having fun looking at the blog stats from this past year. Compared to last year, we tripled our yearly hits and have guests from all around the world. We continue to grow as a community and I have been blessed by the voices present here.

As we wrap up the year, I would love to hear what sort of things you all would like to see for Emerging Women (on the blog or otherwise) in the upcoming year. Suggestions for activities, blog series, book discussions? What could we do to serve you better?

And to end the year with a bit of fun, I'm including a list of interesting search results that land people on this blog. There are of course typical google searches that land people here, but these stood out to me in their unique, strange, and disturbing ways. For some I can't quite understand how they brought people here and for others I wonder what possessed someone to google that in the first place. Anyway, I found it amusing. I've added my comments on a few in italics.

"negative stay at home dad"
"how to stop seeking approval be honest"
"emerging church medical marijuana"
"pastor likes to watch me breastfeed"
"woman who like being gluttons"
"christian statistics lust bra straps"
"what james dobson thinks of the book eat, pray, love by elizabeth gilbert" because he does my thinking for me...
"ads of strong women seeking sissy males"
"emerging supernatural woman"
"encouraging the feminine side for my sissy son"
"god created men stronger than women heart wise"
"the women who got burned by aliens" ummm...
"why beer is not meant for women"
"emerging women 7 ups for christ"
"god im growing a second butt"
"looking for appreciation poems for pastors wives"
"sermons on why God created women" why, could you not come up with a good reason on your own?
"what god thinks women should act like within a relationship"
"husband wife switch bodies"
"should a christian woman show cleavage for an evening function?" because Google will give you the right answer...
"what makes you think about those things" Because Google can read your mind when you are really vague
"man but not women is made in the image and likeness of god"
"red wine vinegar pimples"
"2007 50 sexist woman" I assume they intended to type "sexiest", but I had to laugh
"a peaceful meaningful pagan christmas"
"can a hostess throw a person off a airplane" hostess???
"advice expectation from a submissive woman from a master"
"laws prohibiting women from eating chocolate in public" this is just scary
"names of women who have done something great in 2007"

and (Jemila) just so you know, the top three keyword searches that land people here are 1. Emerging Women, 2. Emergent Women, and 3. Butt Sex.

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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Prayer Synchroblog
Erin Word (one of the ladies behind "Faith In A Dress"), Cindy Bryan and myself are organizing a synchroblog to take place on Monday 27th August. The question for the synchroblog is "How Do You Pray?" The idea can be to discuss what your prayer life does or doesn't look like now compared to how it used to be. How do you view prayer? What part does it take place in your spiritual life right now and so on, you get the gist!

We would love it if some of you here would like to take part and share your journey. If you want to can you either reply here or leave a message on one of our blogs. Also if you could leave here, or send to us a link to your blog entry once you have posted it. I'll post on Monday or Tuesday who has taken part, so that even if you do not feel like participating this time, you can still read other peoples stories.

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Friday, May 18, 2007
Weekly Round-up and Happy Blogoversary!
Hi All

Before I point you all to some of the great EW posts from this past week, I want to announce that tomorrow Emerging Women turns one. So Happy Birthday to Us!

I started the blog a year ago mostly as a way for the women who had attended the Emerging Women ReGathering to stay in touch. There had been much talk that weekend about using our collective voice, to make our presence known in the emerging conversation, and to work towards getting more books by women published in the emerging world. This blog was meant as a resource and encouragement to achieve those ends. It has since grown to be more inclusive of all who are interested in exploring what it means to be an emerging woman. I personally have been blessed beyond measure by the women here and want to thank everyone for the ongoing conversation.

What are your thoughts? Are we achieving the original goals of this blog (should those goals even exist)? As we move into our second year of existence what needs to change, what needs to grow, and what should stay the same? How can we serve women better and just in general be a better resource? How can our voice make more of an impact on the emerging conversation?

I would love to hear your thoughts. And just to highlight a few of the amazing women here who are using their voice, here are some blog posts of note from Emerging Women. Enjoy.

Kim has started a new blog and has a really interesting post up titled Naked Figureheads Have More Fun.

Jan pulls from a variety of recent experiences to reflect on proving ourselves.

Kim Wilkens had an article published recently in her alumni magazine about her experiences in Honduras.

Makeesha has some good thoughts on Christianity, hip-hop music, and living as an exile.

Lyn reviews the new book Jim and Casper Go To Church.

Have a Great Weekend.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
More Blog Stuff
There are a couple of upcoming blogger events that I wanted to make everyone aware of. I encourage everyone to participate as they feel led.



On April 28, 2007 you can lend your voice to the Take Back the Blog! Blogswarm in support of the rights of women to participate fully in all aspects of our society, including specifically online in the world of blogging but indeed everywhere and at all times, day and night, without fear of harassment, intimidation, sexual harassment, online stalking and slander, predation or violence of any sort.





One Day Blog Silence

And then on April 30, 2007 - "Silence can say more than a thousand words. This day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones.
On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor of the victims at Virginia Tech. More then 30 died at the US college massacre. But it´s not only about them. Many bloggers have responded and asked about all the other victims of our world. All the people who die every day. What about them? This day can be a symbol of support to all the victims of our world! All you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect, reflect and empathy."
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Blog Stuff and It's Time to Vote
Okay random blog/community stuff to talk about.

Sometime in the next few weeks we will be starting projects that should help us connect to other Emerging Women more easily and get the voices of Emerging women out there in the blog world. So look forward to that.

Blog aesthetics. As part of the Amazon Associates thing I've turned on a function that allows amazon to search the blog for book titles and add links to them for us. Why - well its helpful to have links to things we are talking about and not everyone knows how to write HTML and it could up the purchases from our Emerging Women Amazon store and bring in more donations. (and of course it makes amazon more money). I'm not sure I'm liking it - especially since it links to phrases that were not meant to be in reference to a book (although apparently amazon sells a book by that title). Anyway, all this to ask - what are your thoughts? Have you noticed? Is the advertising too intrusive or just wrong for us? Let me know.

And on the silly fun side of things. Since today is an election day around here (must remember to go vote when daughter wakes up from nap!) and the local races have been ugly, I am going to break the law of restrictions for nonprofit groups and tell you guys who to vote for. I recently stumbled upon the Blogger's Choice Awards. These are, of course, a silly subjective set of awards, but fun to browse all the same. (I had no idea Will Wheaton had a blog! be still my jr. high heart...). You can nominate and vote for your favorite blogs (you get multiple votes). Just because I could, I nominated Emerging Women for Best Religion Blog.

My site was nominated for Best Religion Blog!

The thing is, most of the really great (and highly ranked on technorati) emerging church blogs have just 1 or 2 votes. So my vote is to get the word out and encourage people vote for those blogs that are exploring these emerging questions. (so far I see that blogs like Jesus Creed, Urban Abbess, TallSkinnyKiwi, and (e)mergent voyageurs have been nominated. You have to search for them (by their url) since they are buried in the lists. Let us know if there are others you think EW should vote for!)

Have fun!
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Monday, April 09, 2007
Creative Writing Blog
A quick note for anyone who may be interested:

I recently started a new blog for those of us who are interested in writing about our faith: http://writingaboutfaith.blogspot.com. I spent most of last month looking for a collaborative site like this, and when I failed to find one decided to start my own.

I will be posting some of my own creative writing in the near future. Hopefully others will as well.

If you're interested in joining, email me.

And now I'm off to recover more fully from a busy (albeit fun) Easter weekend. :)

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Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Browser Issues
So I just got an email from a EW reader saying that the blog had been all messed up for over a week. Sorry I didn't notice it before and thank you for pointing that out. Apparently an image that had been posted wasn't received very well by Internet Explorer and because IE couldn't cope everything got messed up. I'm always on using Mozilla Firefox as my browser so all the template stuff is made for that browser's settings (I still can't seem to get the weird lines to go away in IE...) So note to self - sign in on IE every now and then to check things out. I personally love Firefox (and really can't stand the new IE that Vista upgraded me to...). (Firefox is free for downloading - here.)

Anyway - I was just wondering what browsers all of you EW readers out there use. Is the blog "off" on any other browser? and please let me know asap if something weird ever does happen again!

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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Justice and Compassion blog
I just wanted to spread the word about a new blog (as in very brand new)from Off the Map that is being co-hosted by EW Rachel Stanton. Check out the Justice and Compassion blog. I'm looking forward to the conversations, information, and challenges I expect this blog will provide.

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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Emerging Women T-Shirts
For our upcoming Emerging Women Midwest Gathering we are offering the option of purchasing an Emerging Women t-shirt. I know some people love stuff like this and others could care less. We just thought that we would offer the option of getting an EW t-shirt to everyone before we placed the final printing offer.

Click here for images, colors, and sizes.

These shirts are made in the USA by an ethically conscious company (Bella Clothing).

If you are interested in ordering a t-shirt, I've added a PayPal shopping cart on the sidebar for them. I've never set up one of these before, so I'm hoping it works. We will place the initial order at the start of March and the shirts will be shipped by mid-March.

I don't want this to be a cheezy sales pitch, just wanted to offer the option if people are interested!

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Friday, February 16, 2007
Weekly Round-up
So amidst the recent surge of posts, here's the Weekly Round-up.

But first some blog news.

I finally got around to getting the welcome to Emerging Women/ FAQ's document up. It is linked in the sidebar. This is a basic introduction to the blog and the group Emerging Women. It covers the blog rules and some of the questions I am frequently asked. If you've joined the blog really recently, you will have read a lot of the stuff in this already. But if you aren't a member or joined awhile ago, I highly recommend you read it over. Read it here

We did start this month's book discussion on Hagar, Sarah, and their Children yesterday. It's a few posts down, but easily accessible from a sidebar link if it gets too buried. Everyone is welcome to join in even if you haven't read the book. Click here for the discussion.

The book selection for April has been posted. We will be reading Colossians Remixed by Brian Walsh and Sylvia Keesmaat. And don't forget that the March book is How (not) to Speak of God by Peter Rollins. We are looking for suggestions for upcoming months, so send them in!

And one final news bit. The Midwest Emerging Women Gathering is filling up fast, but there still are spots available. The registration deadline is noon on March 9th, but it's first come first served. So far we have a great group of women participating and I'm very excited about how its coming together. If you want to register click on the link in the sidebar.


Here are some of the events and blog posts of note from around the Emerging Women community from this past week. Anyone is welcome to submit posts or events to be included here to emergingwomen@gmail.com.

Lisa has a great article posted on The Ooze called Grace-filled Relationships: Yuk, What a Mess!. Read it, leave comments, show your support for EW writers!

Read about patriotism over at Calacirian.

Check out posts exploring what it means to love others over at Swinging from the Vine and onehandclapping.

Kim has some good thoughts about church membership and sharing the gospel.


Happy reading!

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Friday, February 02, 2007
Weekly Round-up
Hi all. Time for our weekly round-up. But first a few updates about blog stuff.

I've added a link under the "related links and resources" section in the sidebar for a HTML Cheat Sheet. My husband created this for me a couple of years ago (so yes all the examples he uses are from our blogs) and it was a big help as I tried to learn basic html stuff. This just covers the very basic stuff - how to create links, how to post pictures, how to alter text... I thought it might be useful to have handy.

A few people awhile back had requested a "Friend of Emerging Women" button to put on their blog. I came up with a very basic one (I am so not a graphic designer) that we can use. So if you want to show your support of Emerging Women by displaying the button click here to get the code to paste into your blog. Enjoy.


And now for our weekly round-up. These are what emerging women are blogging about that I found of note. As always feel free to pass on any post you think should be feautured.

Wilsford blogs on defining the emerging/ent church.

Check out Jan's series of posts from the Mainline Emergent conference.

Ari had a great post on decentering the Sunday service over at Swinging from the Vine.

Be treated to the story of Princess Ariana and the Magic Cupcakes over at QuirkyGrace.

Amy blogs about her reaction to a rite of passage ceremony at her church.

And I ramble about questioning everything at onehandclapping.

And be sure to check out the latest additions to our blogroll -
Brethren Priestess Online
Falling Awake
Calacirian
Out of the frying pan into the...friary?
Honduras+

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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Whozat New Kid?
I was the new kid precisely once when I was young and remained so for my entire youth. When I was a baby my parents moved from their hometown areas in Massachusetts to Kansas. When I was six we moved back to the restrictive confines of New England and an insular small town in Vermont. My parents remain in that small town and are still considered new comers ... 40 years later! (Psst ... do not do the math ... I'm hiding my age ;-) )

Fortunately for me that was my one and only experience of not quite belonging. I have spent the rest of my life being pleasantly surprised by the capacity of people to incorporate new friends into their midst. I went to college and blew out my horizons by studying political science and international studies. So I went to Washington DC to change the world or become a foreign services employee. Instead I met my husband ... became ADD and have done some very different things over the course of our 20 year marriage (do not do the math).

I was raised in a family where God was not that important. We didn't go to church and my parents still tend to believe that faith is a crutch for those who are mentally weak in some manner. I'm the oldest of three children and fight my bossy-big-sister tendencies all the time. And I know there are some who might say that this faith of mine began in some sense as a rebellion against my parents. Sobeit. God takes our sacrifices no matter how meager and uses them to change us.

I began my journey of faith in an Evangelical Free Church in the very early 90's. I've been a Sunday School teacher, a youth worker, a Bible Study teacher, a small group leader, and house church leader. We left that church 2003 for many different reasons that are all too lengthy to list here. It's an unhealthy church. We now refer to it as the Church we Left Behind (CLB).

We're now part of an emerging community of faith. I'm part of the group that plans and organizes our worship experience each Sunday. I get to teach and lead worship every so often, which is to say, when it's a subject that I'm passionate about. Being a part of this community takes so much more intentionality, transparency and basically hard work ... but the reward is occasional glimpses of the Kingdom. That makes it all worthwhile.

Yes, I have a blog which you're welcome to visit as you wish. I write there under the penname aBhantiarna Solas, which means Lady of Light in Celtic. I'm looking forward to listening more here, and chiming in occasionally. I've promised some book reviews on women in ministry and those will begin popping up here and there. You may promptly beat them down in a virtual game of Whack-A-Mole. But ... enough about me ...

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Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Braveheart's Battle
Sorry, gals. We were left out of the "big battle." :-( Two people from our faith community were mentioned, though. (Maurice Broaddus and Lauren David) I've got to say that I'm not exactly looking to be included in anybody's fight, but it would have been an honor in a weird way to be listed in this particular group of people. The article's not really worth your time (more of the same anti-ec crap that we've all heard or read plenty of times before), but the comments are worth a quick perusal and it's a handy list of links since the blogs are ones that most of us would actually enjoy.

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Monday, January 01, 2007
New Blogger
So after staying up way way too late last night playing poker at a church overnighter, I braved technology and switched the blog over to the new version of Blogger (which was really really easy). If you are a member of this blog, you will need to switch over as well (whenever it is available to you) in order to continue posting as a member. If something is weird with switching over and you need a new membership invite sent to rejoin just let me know.

One of the new features is the label feature for posts. When you create a new post, you have the option of adding labels to it that describe and categorize it. I'm in the process of going through and labeling our archived posts, but have created a "blog categories" section on the sidebar with the most popular categories. You can now access all posts within particular categories through that. It would help if as we created new posts, we tried to all use the same categories. A post can have multiple labels since I know it is hard to limit how some of them are categorized. The most common labels that I have used are - Blog Stuff, Book Discussions, Church, Community, Culture, Emerging Church, Events, Fun Stuff, Gender Issues, Politics, Social Justice, Theology, Weekly Round-Ups, and Women in Ministry. I know that some of those are very broad - like I use theology to refer to most things religious, biblical, spiritual, philosophical, and strictly theological. Gender Issues not only refers to general discussions about gender roles and the like, but other gender related issues like health, beauty, sexuality, and homosexuality. Anyway, I hope the categories prove helpful and aid discussion.

Happy blogging and Happy New Year!

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Friday, December 29, 2006
The year ends
Hello all.

No weekly round-up this week. I think most of us are still in the post-christmas coma and have yet to truly venture back into the blogging world. I'm not quite ready to return to normal everyday life. I still have lots of cookies left over and we even called the city to find out exactly how long we could wait to take down the tree and still have the city cart it away for us... I haven't let the panic set in that I have to actually fit into a bathing suit for my toddlers swim lessons which start next week (now who's idiot idea was it to sign up for those right after the holidays!!!) - life is just on hold. I've been trying to work on the EW Midwest gathering stuff - so be expecting to hear more about that soon, but its still a slow, lazy week.

I have been in the mood for reflection on this past year. I wasted a lot of time cateloging on my blog all the books I read last year (here), so now I wanted to reflect on EW blog stuff.

Since the Emerging Women blog was created back in May we've had over 18,000 hits from over 40 countries. We have 48 members and this is post #218. I'm always interested in how people find this blog. There are the obvious links from other sites (thanks to everyone who links here!) and personal recommendations, but what are really fun are the google searches that land people here. Of course there are the fair share of searches for "women in the emerging church" or similar such phrases and the searches for topics that land people on particular posts ("mark driscoll controversy" gets us a lot of hits). Our recent holiday cookie post has received a ton of hits as people search for recipes - especially for "peanut (and penut) butter balls". Other more "questionable/interesting" searches get us hits as well. Recent ones for "strip clubs" and "bahamas massage" have brought visitors. Jemila your "butt sex" topic has been a popular draw ;). Then there was the one for "large mature women with tails" that got us a hit - I really don't even want to know. I often find the keyword analysis amusing, so I just thought I'd share.

Anyway - looking ahead. I'm still planning to switch over to the new blogger on Jan 1. So if things are a bit weird at first, just be patient as we work out the kinks. Our next book discussion will open on Jan. 15 and we will be discussing Sue Monk Kidd's Dance of the Dissident Daughter. If you want to get your own copy, the reprint was just released this week so it now easier to find in retail bookstores. I read it a few years ago and am excited to reread it with you guys. And as I mentioned above more information and registration for the Midwest Emerging Women Gathering will be posted very soon - so be thinking about that.

As we end 2006 and move into a new year what is on your minds? Reflecting on this past year - what stands out? How did God work in your life? How did you serve in the Kingdom? How was your world/faith/theology expanded or challenged? If you want, share your resolutions and goals for 2007. How do you want to grow this year? What do you want to learn or achieve? What are your hopes and dreams?

I'm eager to hear where you all are at.

Blessings and Shalom for the New Year.

Julie
emergingwomen@gmail.com
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Blog Update
To all Emerging Women and Friends of Emerging Women –

Just a few blog housekeeping items.

As of Jan. 1, 2007 I will be switching the Emerging Women blog over to the new version of Blogger (also called blogger beta). Why? Well they have a lot of new features like labels, categories and stuff that will make navigating the blog easier. Also eventually the old blogger will be phased out, so the stitch will have to occur.

But that means that if you are a member of EW blog and wish to remain a member you will need to switch over as well. I’ve heard it is really easy to switch over (but I haven’t tried it yet since I wanted to give y’all some warning) and that Blogger has now opened it up to anyone to switch over. Here’s what blogger help says about switching team blogs over -

Team members who have not yet switched to the new version will still see the blog on their dashboards, but it will be grayed out and inaccessible. Once those members move their own accounts to the new version of Blogger, they will be able to access the blog as before. If they can't yet switch, or don't wish to, they can ask the owner of the blog for a new invitation to join the blog on the new version. They can then accept that invitation by logging in to or creating a Google Account to post to that blog. (Later on, when they do switch their Blogger account to the new version, they'll have an option to merge it with this account.)
If a team member of a blog switches their account to the new version of Blogger before the blog owner does, then the team blog is not converted. It will appear on the team member's converted dashboard, but clicking on it will lead back to the old version of Blogger. Thus, the blog will still be usable, but without the new features of Blogger (e.g. Labels, Layouts, etc.).


So just wanted to let everyone know. If you have issues switching over let me know. Also if you aren’t a member and wish to be added as a member or are currently a member and wish to be removed from the blog, let me know as well. I hope this all goes smoothly – I guess we will all find out Jan. 1.

And fyi – we now have a non-blogger url - http://emergingwomen.us
For now it just links to the blog. But it is easier to type, more official, and not blocked by institutional computers (so I’ve heard). I thinks its pretty spiffy.

Thanks for your support and involvement!
Julie Clawson
emergingwomen@gmail.com
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