Okay, new initiative at signposts, to draw you into our private weird little world. For the last 12 months or so we have been running a book club at our church for the purpose of creating some community space, a connection point for different people to slot into our community etc etc etc. For a while we ran it as part of our congregation - that once per month we would run the book club as a part of our haven congregation. We had a lot of good reasons for why we did it this way, but it didn’t really achieve what we wanted to.

So now we have moved the book club to Sunday nights and from this weekend, we are bringing some new people in on the act. And I thought that some randome people out there might be interested in getting in on the act as well.

Here is what I suggest. I have created a new category called “book of the month”, which you can access through our pages called “archives by category“. Every month I will let you know the book that we are looking at, including a couple of comments or quotes. If you have read the book or want to, then you can post a comment on the relevant entry. Alternatively, you can post an entry on your own site about the book and either leave the permalink in the comment section to the post, or, even better, you can send a manual trackback ping to the address http://www.signposts.org.au/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/607.

If people use this nifty function, I will include a script on the side bar to show the last however many track back pings relating to the book of the month club. If people don’t, then it doesn’t bother me. Anyway, I am just interested to see whether people would get involved in this or not, but it doesn’t bother me either way because I am just reflecting what we are doing face to face.

Then after each book club meeting, I will post some reflections on the reactions and discussion. If people have posted about the book or provided ideas, I will use that as part of the discussion in our conversation and let you know what people thought.

Anyone interested?

If you don’t know how to use Trackback, take a look at this entry. The address above won’t necessarily be picked up automatically by your machine. So if you want to ping the category, copy the above address into the MT editing screen in the box entitled “URLs to ping”. If this is too complicated, don’t worry. If you have your MT blog set up in the manner set out in my previous post, then you should still ping the post that concerns the particular book.

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