{"id":3231,"date":"2007-01-26T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/new-and-newer-blogs.html"},"modified":"2007-01-26T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-26T12:36:07","slug":"new-and-newer-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/01\/new-and-newer-blogs.html","title":{"rendered":"New and newer blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of notes from the email box this morning:<\/p>\n

Mom, author and artist Regina Doman has started a blog with a very specific focus – and a lovely, clean, look with quite artful photography,  BTW:<\/a><\/p>\n

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How can you be an artist when you’re a busy mom or dad who doesn’t have much time to write novels or paint pictures or compose sonatas? This is the dilemma for the beauty-lover who wants to help build a culture of life but just doesn’t have time.<\/p>\n

I have an artist friend who was in that position, and once she said to me, "My life is my art." Meaning, she tried to make everything about her beautiful for herself and for her husband and children. Not "beautiful" in the sense of being expensive or glamorous — just "beautiful" in terms of loveliness.<\/p>\n

As she is a homemaker, she tries — and following her, I try — to make my house my art.<\/p>\n

That’s what this blog is about.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

JB, the Kairos Guy, who was one of the earlier Catholic bloggers back in the day, is returning, with, like Regina, a specific focus:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many, many readers and members of St. Blog’s seem to agree that catechesis of the young is in appalling shape nationally, even if there are a few exceptions here and there. But it often seems that agreement ends there. So, let me ask specifically: what exactly is wrong with it?<\/p>\n

Second, what kinds of youth ministry seem to be exceptions? What works?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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