The Bloggernacle or Bloggernacle Choir is a name that has been adopted by some in the LDS The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of religious denominations and adherents who follow at least some of the teachings and revelations of Joseph Smith, Jr., publisher of the Book of Mormon in 1830. The Latter Day Saint movement is one of a number of separate movements that arose during the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century, many of blogging A blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a community to describe the Mormon A Mormon is an adherent, practitioner, follower, or constituent of Mormonism, which is the largest branch of the Latter Day Saint movement. Most commonly, the term Mormon refers to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , which is commonly but imprecisely called the Mormon Church. In addition, the term Mormon may refer to any of the portion of the 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.[1] It was created as a play on words of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a 360-member, all-volunteer choir. The choir is sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints . However, the choir is completely self-funded, traveling and producing albums to support the organization. The choir's current music director is Mack Wilberg. An individual LDS blogger is sometimes referred to as a bloggernacker, nacker, naccer or bloggern.[citation needed] Not all LDS-themed bloggers like or use the name Bloggernacle, or even consider their blog to be part of it.

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History

It was on November 23, 2002, that the Mormon blogging community became a distinct entity with the founding of the blog Metaphysical Elders.[2] 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.[3] By the next two years, the multi-author blogs Times and Seasons, Approaching Zion, By Common Consent, Feminist Mormon Housewives, 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, Ministering Angels, Mormon Mommy Wars, Latter Day Liberation Front, LDS Science Review, and Mormon Metaphysics had been launched.[4] (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,[5] the writer The word is almost synonymous with author, though somebody who writes, for example, a laundry list, could technically be called the writer of the list, but not an author. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are estimated to be 3.2 Million skilled writers living today Kaimi Wenger at the LDS blog Times and Seasons noticed that the Jewish The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are a nation and ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation. Converts to Judaism, whose status as Jews within the Jewish ethnos and Catholic The word catholic is derived from the Greek adjective καθολικός (katholikos), meaning "universal". The word derives from the Greek phrase καθόλο (kath'holou) meaning "on the whole" or "in general" and is a combination of the Greek words κατά meaning "about" and όλος meaning "whole blogging communities In biological terms, a community is a group of interacting species sharing an environment. In human communities, intent, belief, resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree of cohesiveness had adopted names for themselves. In a blog post titled "The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere",[6] 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 Mormon apologetics is the field of apologetics directed toward Mormonism. It is the systematic defense of Mormonism against its critics. The term Mormon apologetics also sometimes refers to scholarly efforts to defend a particular view of orthodoxy within Mormonism against dissenting or divergent views.[citation needed] website and blog; Jeff Lindsay writes a Mormon apologetic blog entitled Mormanity, as well. A Mormon "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 more. They may focus on special genres of" named A Motley Vision was founded in 2004 by William Morris.[7] During 2005 2005 was a common year that started on a Saturday. In the Gregorian calendar, it was the 2005th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 5th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 6th of the 2000s decade, several LDS-themed podcasts A podcast is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. The word usurped webcast in common vernacular, due to rising popularity of the iPod and the innovation of web feeds 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[8] and the group blog Mormon Matters).[9]

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,[10][11] Courtney Jane Kendrick of C Jane Enjoy It, and Jana Mathews who blogs at Momlogic Momlogic.com is an American parenting website launched by Telepictures Productions and Warner Bros. Television in November 2007. In July 2008, momlogic.com was named the most influential parent-focused blog overall by PR Week as "The Meanest Mom."[12][13][14] (A spoof on this genre of 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. The purpose of a fake blog is to inspire viral marketing or create an internet meme that generates traffic is the blog "Seriously, so Blessed!," written by an anonymous Utah woman.[15]) In 2009, the religious news site Religion Dispatches ran a story about the phenomenon of Mormon mommy blogging Family-and-homemaking blogs are weblog which feature commentary and discussions especially about home, family, and parenting. Appellations in media reports of "mom blog," "dad blog," "parenting blog" and "family blog" refer to blogs of this type. Businesses seek to run advertising for household items and,[16] 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).[17][18]

Some of the Bloggernacle's more prominent blogs are named after defunct Latter Day Saint The Latter Day Saint movement is a group of religious denominations and adherents who follow at least some of the teachings and revelations of Joseph Smith, Jr., publisher of the Book of Mormon in 1830. The Latter Day Saint movement is one of a number of separate movements that arose during the Second Great Awakening of the 19th century, many of 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.[19][20] Keepapitchinin, a Mormon history blog written by Salt Lake Tribune The Salt Lake Tribune is the largest-circulated daily newspaper in the U.S. city of Salt Lake City, Utah. The Salt Lake Tribune is distributed by Newspaper Agency Corporation, which also distributes the Deseret Morning News. The Tribune — or "Trib," as it is locally known — is currently owned by the Denver-based MediaNews Group. For 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.[21][22] The blog Millennial Star was named after The Latter-day Saints’ 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 The area now called England has been settled by people of various cultures for about 35,000 years, but it takes its name from the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in AD 927, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant 1840–1970; and the LDS history blog The Juvenile Instructor[23] is the namesake of a publication intended as a catechism of Mormonism printed in 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. Salt Lake City has a population of 181,698 as of July 1, 2008, making it the 126th largest city in the United States. The Salt Lake City metropolitan area spans Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties, and 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.

Bloggernacle Blogs

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.

LDS 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."[24][25] 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.

In addition to the MA, other LDS Blog Aggregators include:

See also

Latter-day Saints portal The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sometimes referred to as the LDS Church or the Mormon Church, describes itself as the restoration of the original church established by Jesus Christ. It is classified as a Christian church; separate from the Catholic or Protestant traditions, though many of those denominations disavow the LDS Church

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/05/national/05religion.html
  2. ^ http://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2005/02/in-memory-of-the-metaphysical-elders/
  3. ^ http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/emily_w_jensen/?id=5255&seeRelated=1
  4. ^ http://www.religionnewsblog.com/12859
  5. ^ The Revealer:
  6. ^ Times & Seasons » The Nameless Mormon Blogosphere
  7. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20080101/ai_n21181824/
  8. ^ http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_12871883
  9. ^ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695195330,00.html
  10. ^ http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20090924-tows-stephanie-plane-crash
  11. ^ http://www.azfamily.com/news/local/Couple-that-survived-St-Johns-plane-crash-on-Oprah-63726622.html
  12. ^ http://byustudies.byu.edu/Reviews/Pages/reviewdetail.aspx?reviewID=799
  13. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/fashion/07burn.html?ref=fashion
  14. ^ http://www.myfox8.com/wghp-br-meanest-mom-090130,0,189358.story
  15. ^ http://www.mormontimes.com/people_news/newsmakers/?id=2640
  16. ^ The story went on to quote a source saying that the term Bloggernacle arose as a Salt Lake City 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 an estimated population of 183,171, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total estimated population of 1,130,293. Salt Lake City is further situated in a larger urban-based response to the rise of Mormon blogs.
  17. ^ [1]
  18. ^ [2]
  19. ^ http://news.google.com/archivesearch?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22guy+murray%22+flds&cf=all
  20. ^ http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SLTB&p_theme=sltb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=11824075E8635EE8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM
  21. ^ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,645201941,00.html
  22. ^ http://www.mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/emily_w_jensen/?id=3310&seeRelated=1
  23. ^ http://mormontimes.com/mormon_voices/emily_w_jensen/?id=7957
  24. ^ http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2005/03/convenience-or-death/37/
  25. ^ http://www.splendidsun.com/wp/archipelago/

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