Welcome

Welcome to the SCC faculty blog.  I though we might start with a discussion of our rules of engagement.  Our purpose is to stimulate discussion about topics of interest arising in the Pentecostal / charismatic world and, in particular, to get interdisciplinary discussion going between Southern Cross College faculty, students, and the world beyond.

My idea to facilitate discussion was to allocate a member of faculty to lead the blog for a week (or so).  This person would select a topic arising from their own research or teaching, and post a series of blogs, to which others are encouraged to respond.

I suggest that we commence with posts of around anywhere between 300 to 1000 words.  If you have more to say, break it up into a few posts.

To give you an idea of the sort of things we might do, have a look at these blogs:

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur

http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/

http://www.christilling.de/blog/ctblog.html

Anyway - dont just read this post.  Give me your comments, suggestions, fears etc.  Once we have established our grandrules, set up the look and feel of the blog, we shall start our discussion

Comments

[Deborah Taggart]

Oooh, I'm excited we have a blog and can't wait to get discussions and traffic flowing.

But maybe the time it takes to build momentum will give me a chance to improve the design of this site before it becomes too public ;)

[Chris Tessone]

Welcome to the blogosphere! I found my way over from Tilling's blog. I've been aware of Pentacostalism peripherally for a long time (it's quite prevalent here in Southern Illinois, USA, and my grandmother's church is part of the movement), but I'm looking forward to engaging with it more closely.

Incidentally, I just heard the Speaking of Faith episode on Pentacostalism recently--I found it quite good. It's here:

http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/azusarevival/index.shtml

[Ben Myers]

Welcome! I just came here via Chris Tilling -- and it's great to see this new blog. It's good to see serious theological reflection from a Pentecostal viewpoint.

[Craig Bennett]

Yahooo, I have been blogging for a number of years on other sites such as Sydney Anglicans and recently Ship of Fools. This excites me that there is now a site for Pentecostal / Charo issues to be discussed without fear of having every belief system challenged, though that is a good thing for us all to know what we believe and why we believe it, and does it hold water against conservative theology....which it must.

[Craig Bennett]

While this perhaps is not the right place to ask this question, or to facilitate it; I think it would also be good if there was a facility to be able to download some good Pentecostal sermons in audible format, and perhaps to be able to discuss them as well.