Bloggernacle
Encyclopedia
The Mormon blogosphere is the Mormon
portion of the blogosphere
. The latter two terms were coined by individuals within members of LDS blogging community as a play on the name of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
; however, not all LDS-themed bloggers like or use the name Bloggernacle, or even consider their blog to be part of it.
, Approaching Zion, By Common Consent
, Feminist Mormon Housewives
, Millennial Star, Ministering Angels, Mormon Mommy Wars, Latter Day Liberation Front, LDS Science Review, and Mormon Metaphysics had been launched. (Several of these blogs currently do not exist and a great number more have joined the community's ranks.) On March 23, 2004, due to an article in The Revealer
, the writer
Kaimi Wenger at the LDS blog Times and Seasons noticed that the Jewish and Catholic
blogging communities
had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled "The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere", Wenger sought to remedy this situation and asked for suggestions for a name. Christopher Bradford posting under the name "Grasshopper" suggested "Bloggernacle Choir", the shortened version of which gained wide approval. "Bloggernacle" is a term that has been used commonly by LDS bloggers.
The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
features an LDS-apologetics
website and blog; Jeff Lindsay writes a Mormon apologetic blog entitled Mormanity, as well. A Mormon "litblog
" named A Motley Vision
was founded in 2004 by William Morris. During 2005, several LDS-themed podcast
s entered the Bloggernacle to augment LDS blogging with audio programming; these included podcasts produced by church affiliated sources and an independent series produced by John Dehlin
(who has also founded the blog Stay LDS and the group blog Mormon Matters).
Stay-at-home mothers who are LDS and who blog are known to comment occasionally upon their religion; two such writers whose blogs have become popular with non-Mormon audiences are Stephanie Nielson
, of the blog the NieNie Dialogues, C. Jane Kendrick
of CJane Enjoy I], and Jana Mathews who blogs at Momlogic as "The Meanest Mom." (A spoof on this genre of blog
is the blog "Seriously, so Blessed!," written by an anonymous Utah woman.) In 2009, the religious news site Religion Dispatches
ran a story about the phenomenon of Mormon mommy blogging, which its author believed arose in part in response to Elder Ballard
's 2007 commencement address at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, which had lauded efforts by Mormon faithful to share their beliefs through such means as blogging, citing an online post by "Bookslinger" (pseudonymous author of the blog Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon).
Mormon videographer
Seth Adam Smith began blogging in 2004. Some of the Bloggernacle's more prominent blogs are named after defunct Latter Day Saint publications. For example, Messenger and Advocate, a blog written by Guy Murray, was named after the LDS publication of the same name
published 1834–1837 in Kirtland, Ohio
. Keepapitchinin, a Mormon history blog written by Salt Lake Tribune columnist and independent historian Ardis Parshall that she founded in 2008, was named after a sporadically published humorous newspaper published 1867–1871 and pseudonymously written by three sons of LDS apostles, George J. Taylor, Joseph C. Rich, and Heber John Richards. The blog Millennial Star was named after The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star
, published in England
1840–1970; and the LDS history blog The Juvenile Instructor
is the namesake of a publication
intended as a catechism of Mormonism printed in Salt Lake City, Utah
1866–1930.
Salt Lake City, Utah's The Deseret News began producing a separate, LDS-themed newspaper insert on January 10, 2008 named Mormon Times. The website version of this insert features readers' feedback. The Mormon Times reporter covering the Bloggernacle is Emily W. Jensen. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own Internet presence is substantial; and Church spokesman Michael Otterson's blogging contributions feature prominently in the LDS blogosphere as well. Linescratchers, an LDS contemporary music
scene blog, also debuted in 2008.
Neylan McBaine
founded The Mormon Women Project in 2010.
called Banner of Heaven, a name derived from part of the name of a book of non-fiction by Jon Krakauer
. Those involved in the prank were eventually exposed through a Bloggernacle-wide contest hosted at 9 Moons, another group blog. Although many people found the content on Banner of Heaven to be humorous, others found the deception to be very off-putting, and the Mormon blogging community engaged in multiple bouts of debate and protest over the ramifications of such a hoax. After seeing the extreme negative reaction, the perpetrators posted public apologies, although some of these were not well received by the community. , the Banner of Heaven hoax continued to elicit strong debate whenever the subject was broached, and the hoax constituted one of the most important or defining events in the history of Mormon blogging.
Because of the controversy, the Banner of Heaven weblog was taken down and made not accessible until Scott B. of By Common Consent
initiated a resurrection of the blog in order to conduct a five-year retrospective on the scandal. The blog is now permanently hosted by MormonMentality.org, a group blog founded by David K. Landrith, one of the perpetrators behind the hoax.
In addition to the MA, other LDS Blog Aggregators include:
, one of the most distinguished and beloved Mormon scholars. Categories for the awards include "Best Big Blog", "Best Individual/Solo Blog", "Best Post", "Best Humorous Post", "Best Blog Design", "Best Overall Blogger", and numerous other categories. The Niblets often cause arguments and disputes within the bloggernacle, as there are frequently disagreements over which blogs should properly be considered members of the "bloggernacle community" and which blogs are simply Mormon-themed.
Best big blog
Best group blog
Best solo blog
Best overall blogger
People
Other branches of the Latter Day Saint movement
Mormon
The term Mormon most commonly denotes an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in restorationist Christianity...
portion of the blogosphere
Blogosphere
The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions...
. The latter two terms were coined by individuals within members of LDS blogging community as a play on the name of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab, is a Grammy and Emmy Award winning, 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is part of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to...
; however, not all LDS-themed bloggers like or use the name Bloggernacle, or even consider their blog to be part of it.
History
It was on November 23, 2002, that the Mormon blogging community became a distinct entity with the founding of the blog Metaphysical Elders. Some component blogs from the Mormon blogosphere's first two years were short lived, however one of its first bloggers, Dave Banack, began his longstanding Mormon Inquiry blog on August 19, 2003. On January 1, 2003, a mutli-author blog Mormon Momma launched — a spin off from the original Circle of Sisters column from Meridian Magazine. By the next two years, the multi-author blogs Times and SeasonsTimes & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog
Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog is a multi-author weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events...
, Approaching Zion, By Common Consent
By Common Consent
By Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
, Feminist Mormon Housewives
Feminist Mormon Housewives
Feminist Mormon Housewives is a group blog featuring commentary on contemporary Mormon culture and women's issues. According to The New York Times, "Unlike the more mainstream Mormon blogs – known collectively as the Bloggernacle – that by and large promote the faith, this online diary focuses on...
, Millennial Star, Ministering Angels, Mormon Mommy Wars, Latter Day Liberation Front, LDS Science Review, and Mormon Metaphysics had been launched. (Several of these blogs currently do not exist and a great number more have joined the community's ranks.) On March 23, 2004, due to an article in The Revealer
The Revealer
The Revealer is "a daily online review of religion in the news". The website is published by the Center for Religion and Media at New York University with funding from the Center and the university's journalism department. "The Revealer" was conceived by Jay Rosen. Jeff Sharlet and Kathryn Joyce...
, the writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
Kaimi Wenger at the LDS blog Times and Seasons noticed that the Jewish and Catholic
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
blogging communities
Community
The term community has two distinct meanings:*a group of interacting people, possibly living in close proximity, and often refers to a group that shares some common values, and is attributed with social cohesion within a shared geographical location, generally in social units larger than a household...
had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled "The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere", Wenger sought to remedy this situation and asked for suggestions for a name. Christopher Bradford posting under the name "Grasshopper" suggested "Bloggernacle Choir", the shortened version of which gained wide approval. "Bloggernacle" is a term that has been used commonly by LDS bloggers.
The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research
The Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research is a non-profit organization that specializes in Mormon apologetics and responds to criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . FAIR is made up of volunteers who seek to answer questions submitted to its web site...
features an LDS-apologetics
Mormon apologetics
Mormon apologetics is the systematic defense of Mormonism against its critics. Notable Latter-day Saint apologists include early church leaders such as John Taylor, B. H. Roberts, James E. Talmage and modern scholars such as Hugh Nibley, Orson Scott Card, and Jeff Lindsay...
website and blog; Jeff Lindsay writes a Mormon apologetic blog entitled Mormanity, as well. A Mormon "litblog
Litblog
A litblog is a blog that focuses primarily on the topic of literature. There is a community of litblogs in the blogosphere whose authors cover a variety of literary topics. Litbloggers may write about fiction, nonfiction, poetry, the publishing industry, literary journals, literary criticism, and...
" named A Motley Vision
A Motley Vision
A Motley Vision is an online multi-author blog featuring criticism of the Mormon arts, LDS literature and film in particular. It was launched by William Morris on June 2, 2004...
was founded in 2004 by William Morris. During 2005, several LDS-themed podcast
Podcast
A podcast is a series of digital media files that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication...
s entered the Bloggernacle to augment LDS blogging with audio programming; these included podcasts produced by church affiliated sources and an independent series produced by John Dehlin
John Dehlin
John P. Dehlin is the creator of several Mormon-themed podcasts, blogs and web sites. John worked for several years in various positions at Microsoft, and served for a few years as the Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an influential...
(who has also founded the blog Stay LDS and the group blog Mormon Matters).
Stay-at-home mothers who are LDS and who blog are known to comment occasionally upon their religion; two such writers whose blogs have become popular with non-Mormon audiences are Stephanie Nielson
Stephanie Nielson
Stephanie Nielson is a well-known Mormon mommy blogger, burn survivor, and author of the blog The NieNie Dialogues. She is also the younger sister of another popular blogger, C. Jane Kendrick.-Plane crash and recovery:...
, of the blog the NieNie Dialogues, C. Jane Kendrick
C. Jane Kendrick
Courtney Jane Kendrick is a blogger, Salt Lake City, Utah, Deseret News newspaper columnist and humorist who writes about her life and family on her blog, C Jane Enjoy It...
of CJane Enjoy I], and Jana Mathews who blogs at Momlogic as "The Meanest Mom." (A spoof on this genre of blog
Fake blog
A fake blog is an electronic communication form that appears to originate from a credible, non-biased source, but which in fact is created by a company or organization for the purpose of marketing a product, service, or political viewpoint...
is the blog "Seriously, so Blessed!," written by an anonymous Utah woman.) In 2009, the religious news site Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches
Religion Dispatches is a daily online magazine covering religion and culture from a progressive point of view....
ran a story about the phenomenon of Mormon mommy blogging, which its author believed arose in part in response to Elder Ballard
M. Russell Ballard
Melvin Russell Ballard, Jr. is an American businessman and a religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was called to serve in the church's Quorum of the Twelve Apostles in 1985. As a member of the Quorum of the Twelve, Ballard is accepted by the church members as a...
's 2007 commencement address at Brigham Young University–Hawaii, which had lauded efforts by Mormon faithful to share their beliefs through such means as blogging, citing an online post by "Bookslinger" (pseudonymous author of the blog Flooding the Earth with the Book of Mormon).
Mormon videographer
Videographer
Strictly speaking, a videographer is a person who works in the field of videography, video production — recording moving images and sound on video tape, disk, other electro-mechanical device. News broadcasting relies heavily on live television where videographers engage in electronic news...
Seth Adam Smith began blogging in 2004. Some of the Bloggernacle's more prominent blogs are named after defunct Latter Day Saint publications. For example, Messenger and Advocate, a blog written by Guy Murray, was named after the LDS publication of the same name
Messenger and Advocate
Latter Day Saints' Messenger and Advocate was an early Latter Day Saint periodical published monthly in Kirtland, Ohio from October 1834 to September 1837...
published 1834–1837 in Kirtland, Ohio
Kirtland, Ohio
Kirtland is a city in Lake County, Ohio, USA. The population was 6,670 at the 2000 census. Kirtland is famous for being the early headquarters of the Latter Day Saint movement.-Origins of Kirtland:...
. Keepapitchinin, a Mormon history blog written by Salt Lake Tribune columnist and independent historian Ardis Parshall that she founded in 2008, was named after a sporadically published humorous newspaper published 1867–1871 and pseudonymously written by three sons of LDS apostles, George J. Taylor, Joseph C. Rich, and Heber John Richards. The blog Millennial Star was named after The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star
Millennial Star
The Latter-day Saints’ Millennial Star was the longest continuously published periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, being printed from 1840 until 1970....
, published in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
1840–1970; and the LDS history blog The Juvenile Instructor
is the namesake of a publication
Juvenile Instructor
The Juvenile Instructor was an official periodical of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints between 1901 and 1930. It was first published in 1866 as a private publication...
intended as a catechism of Mormonism printed in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
1866–1930.
Salt Lake City, Utah's The Deseret News began producing a separate, LDS-themed newspaper insert on January 10, 2008 named Mormon Times. The website version of this insert features readers' feedback. The Mormon Times reporter covering the Bloggernacle is Emily W. Jensen. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' own Internet presence is substantial; and Church spokesman Michael Otterson's blogging contributions feature prominently in the LDS blogosphere as well. Linescratchers, an LDS contemporary music
Mormon music
Music has had a long history in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from the days in Kirtland, Nauvoo, and the settlement of the West, to the present day. In the early days of the Church, stripped-down Mormon folk music, which could be sung without accompaniment due to the lack of...
scene blog, also debuted in 2008.
Neylan McBaine
Neylan McBaine
Neylan McBaine is a blogger and columnist at Patheos.com and PowerofMoms.com. She has been published in Newsweek, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah, Meridian Magazine and BustedHalo.com...
founded The Mormon Women Project in 2010.
Banner of Heaven hoax
From May 30, 2005 until just before Halloween of the same year, six bloggers carried out an elaborate and, ultimately very controversial prank through a fake blogFake blog
A fake blog is an electronic communication form that appears to originate from a credible, non-biased source, but which in fact is created by a company or organization for the purpose of marketing a product, service, or political viewpoint...
called Banner of Heaven, a name derived from part of the name of a book of non-fiction by Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writing about the outdoors and mountain-climbing...
. Those involved in the prank were eventually exposed through a Bloggernacle-wide contest hosted at 9 Moons, another group blog. Although many people found the content on Banner of Heaven to be humorous, others found the deception to be very off-putting, and the Mormon blogging community engaged in multiple bouts of debate and protest over the ramifications of such a hoax. After seeing the extreme negative reaction, the perpetrators posted public apologies, although some of these were not well received by the community. , the Banner of Heaven hoax continued to elicit strong debate whenever the subject was broached, and the hoax constituted one of the most important or defining events in the history of Mormon blogging.
Because of the controversy, the Banner of Heaven weblog was taken down and made not accessible until Scott B. of By Common Consent
By Common Consent
By Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
initiated a resurrection of the blog in order to conduct a five-year retrospective on the scandal. The blog is now permanently hosted by MormonMentality.org, a group blog founded by David K. Landrith, one of the perpetrators behind the hoax.
Selected list
Since the birth of the Bloggernacle, many blogs—both group blogs with multiple authors, and solo blogs with a single author (many of which have also contributed material to group blogs) have played a role in the development and expansion of the Bloggernacle.Group blogs
- By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
, a large group blog with devotional, scholarly, comedic, political, and personal writings. - Times & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon BlogTimes & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon BlogTimes & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog is a multi-author weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events...
- Faith Promoting Rumor
- Bloggernacle Times, a "neutral" group blog which hosts bloggernacle meta-discussions. Contributors to the BT come from most of the prominent Mormon blogs.
- Feminist Mormon HousewivesFeminist Mormon HousewivesFeminist Mormon Housewives is a group blog featuring commentary on contemporary Mormon culture and women's issues. According to The New York Times, "Unlike the more mainstream Mormon blogs – known collectively as the Bloggernacle – that by and large promote the faith, this online diary focuses on...
, a large group blog focused primarily on issues women face in the LDS Church. - Mormon Mentality
- Wheat and Tares, a large group blog discussing a wide variety of topics from the perspective of people having a connection to Mormonism.
- The Juvenile Instructor, a smaller group blog specializing in Mormon history.
- Millennial Star
- New Cool Thang
- Nine Moons
- The Mormon Women Project
- Mormon Momma
- Modern Mormon Men, an eclectic group blog exploring topics that inspire, motivate and challenge the LDS man.
Blog portals
Numerous blog aggregators, or portals, have been constructed by participants in the Bloggernacle. The most prominent and widely recognized portal is the Mormon Archipelago (or MA), which was created in 2005 "to be a useful central place to see what’s going on at all of the best blogs in the Bloggernacle." The MA displays LDS-themed blogs, grouped together in various boxes or "islands", with the newest content in each blog on top, with sidebars displaying links to recent comments around the Bloggernacle. Over time, the location with the MA, removal of blogs, or addition of blogs has resulted in disputes over the role the MA plays in Mormon blogging.In addition to the MA, other LDS Blog Aggregators include:
- MormonBlogs.org, an aggregator affiliated with the Mormon group weblog Mormon Matters.
- Mormon Blogosphere, an aggregator accepting any Mormon-related blog.
- LDS Blogs, a list of both LDS-themed blogs, as well as non-LDS-themed blogs by LDS bloggers.
- Nothing Wavering, a list of both LDS-themed blogs, as well as non-LDS-themed blogs by LDS bloggers.
Niblets
Since 2005, the Mormon blogging community has given out "Niblet Awards" (or just "Niblets") to recognize outstanding contributions to the bloggernacle. These awards have typically been awarded on the basis of open nominations and voting, while the location of the awards and voting has varied from year to year. The term "Niblet" is an homage to Hugh NibleyHugh Nibley
Hugh Winder Nibley was an American author, Mormon apologist, and professor at Brigham Young University...
, one of the most distinguished and beloved Mormon scholars. Categories for the awards include "Best Big Blog", "Best Individual/Solo Blog", "Best Post", "Best Humorous Post", "Best Blog Design", "Best Overall Blogger", and numerous other categories. The Niblets often cause arguments and disputes within the bloggernacle, as there are frequently disagreements over which blogs should properly be considered members of the "bloggernacle community" and which blogs are simply Mormon-themed.
Niblet winners
The host site for the 2009 Niblet awards, Mormon Matters, compiled records of past winners as part of the awards. Among the winners were:Best big blog
- 2005: Times and SeasonsTimes & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon BlogTimes & Seasons, An Onymous Mormon Blog is a multi-author weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events...
and By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
(tie) - 2006: By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
- 2007: By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
- 2008: By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
- 2009: By Common ConsentBy Common ConsentBy Common Consent or “BCC” is a group weblog featuring commentary and discussion especially of contemporary Mormon culture, thought and current events. Since its foundation in 2004, BCC has been one of the leading group blogs in the Mormon Bloggernacle, and has been a mainstay on the Mormon...
Best group blog
- 2005: Nine Moons
- 2006: Zelophehad’s Daughters
- 2007: Zelophehad’s Daughters
- 2008: Segullah
- 2009: Segullah
Best solo blog
- 2005: Dave’s Mormon Inquiry
- 2006: Dave’s Mormon Inquiry
- 2007: (N/A)
- 2008: Keepapitchinin
- 2009: Keepapitchinin
Best overall blogger
- 2005: Wilfried DecooWilfried DecooWilfried Decoo is a Flemish academic. He is currently a professor with the department of French and Italian at Brigham Young University and also a professor at the University of Antwerp. Decoo is also a contributor to the Mormon blog Times and Seasons.Decoo has a B.A. from Antwerp Jesuit...
- 2006: Wilfried Decoo
- 2007: Kevin Barney
- 2008: Ardis Parshall
- 2009: Tracy M
See also
- CyberchurchCyberchurchAn Internet Church or Online Church or Cyberchurch refers to a wide variety of ways that a religious group is using the internet to facilitate its religious activities, particularly worship services.-History:...
- Foundation for Apologetic Information & ResearchFoundation for Apologetic Information & ResearchThe Foundation for Apologetic Information & Research is a non-profit organization that specializes in Mormon apologetics and responds to criticism of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . FAIR is made up of volunteers who seek to answer questions submitted to its web site...
- J-BlogosphereJ-BlogosphereJ-blogosphere is the name that some members of the Jewish blogging community use to refer to themselves. Blogs with a Jewish focus are called J-blogs. The name "J-blogosphere" was coined by Steven I. Weiss when he was the leader of "Protocols," a now defunct group J-blog, and one of the first...
- Name adopted by Jewish blogging community - List of family-and-homemaking blogs
People
- Heather ArmstrongHeather ArmstrongHeather B. Armstrong is an American blogger who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. She writes under the pseudonym of Dooce...
- Elna BakerElna BakerElna Baker is a writer and performer of humorous stories. Her stories have been featured on radio programs such as This American Life, The Moth, BBC Radio 4 and Studio 360...
- Kevin L. BarneyKevin L. BarneyKevin L. Barney is a specialist in public finance law who also writes scholarly works related to Mormon history, scripture and thought. He serves on the boards of Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought and the Foundation for Apologetic Information and Research...
- John DehlinJohn DehlinJohn P. Dehlin is the creator of several Mormon-themed podcasts, blogs and web sites. John worked for several years in various positions at Microsoft, and served for a few years as the Director of the OpenCourseWare Consortium for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an influential...
- Steve Evans (lawyer and blogger)Steve Evans (lawyer and blogger)Stephen D. "Steve" Evans is an American lawyer and Mormon blogger, known best for his role in the founding and administration of By Common Consent, one of the largest, longest-running, and most prominent, LDS-themed blogs....
- C. Jane KendrickC. Jane KendrickCourtney Jane Kendrick is a blogger, Salt Lake City, Utah, Deseret News newspaper columnist and humorist who writes about her life and family on her blog, C Jane Enjoy It...
- Jeff Lindsay (engineer)
- Neylan McBaineNeylan McBaineNeylan McBaine is a blogger and columnist at Patheos.com and PowerofMoms.com. She has been published in Newsweek, Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, Segullah, Meridian Magazine and BustedHalo.com...
- Ardis E. ParshallArdis E. ParshallArdis E. Parshall is a historian, freelance researcher specializing in Mormon history, a blogger and a columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune. Her history blog is Keepapitchinin. Parshall co-edited with Paul Reeve Mormonism: A Historical Encyclopedia, published in 2010 by ABC-CLIO.- External links :*...
- Scot and Maurine ProctorScot and Maurine ProctorScot and Maurine Proctor are the founders of the Latter-day Saint oriented website Meridian Magazine. They have also issued a revised edition of Lucy Mack Smith's history of Joseph Smith; it has been criticized by scholars such as Janiece Johnson who criticized the book for merging various...
- Larry L. RichmanLarry L. RichmanLarry Richman is a social media expert, Internet strategist, publishing executive, trainer on project management, and of over a dozen books, numerous book translations, and articles in professional journals and magazines. Syndicated columnist...
External links
Related to the LDS Church- LDS Newsroom Blog – Blog of the LDS Church's Public Affairs Department
- "Bloggernacle Rankings: BCC is #1!," by Batman at Mormon Matters blog
- "Why I can't stop reading Mormon housewife blogs," Emily Matchar, SalonSalon.comSalon.com, part of Salon Media Group , often just called Salon, is an online liberal magazine, with content updated each weekday. Salon was founded by David Talbot and launched on November 20, 1995. It was the internet's first online-only commercial publication. The magazine focuses on U.S...
, January 15, 2011 - "The 'travails and triumphs' of Mormon mommies blogging," by Emily W. Jensen
- "Bloggernacle Voices," Sunstone MagazineSunstone MagazineSunstone is a magazine published by the Sunstone Education Foundation, Inc., a 501 nonprofit corporation, that discusses Mormonism through scholarship, art, short fiction, and poetry. The foundation began the publication in 1974 and considers it a vehicle for free and frank exchange in The Church...
, October 1, 2007 - "Today in the Bloggernacle," Emily W. Jensen, Mormon TimesMormon TimesMormon Times was a website and newspaper insert containing news and information for and about members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . According to mormontimes.com, it has moved back to Deseret News....
online magazineOnline magazineAn online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, but can usually be distinguished by its approach to editorial control... - Mormon Blogosphere – Considered the most inclusive – hence, immense – aggregator of LDS-themed blogs
- Mormon Archipelago – A pioneering and still very popular Bloggernacle aggregator
- Nothing Wavering - An LDS-themed blog portal that focuses on comparatively orthodox LDS blogs
- "The history of lds blog portals" by J. Max Wilson
Other branches of the Latter Day Saint movement
Latter Day Saint movement
The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of independent churches tracing their origin to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 14 million members...
- Saints Herald – Blog linking to a collection of other, independent Community of ChristCommunity of ChristThe Community of Christ, known from 1872 to 2001 as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , is an American-based international Christian church established in April 1830 that claims as its mission "to proclaim Jesus Christ and promote communities of joy, hope, love, and peace"...
blogs. - The Plural Life – The Salt Lake Tribune's blog covering fundamentalist Latter Day Saints written by Brooke Adams