Calling All Reformed Bloggers

As most of you who read me on a regular basis know, I'm a Presbyterian pastor who is a pretty dyed in the wool advocate of Reformed theology. Adrian Warnock and I have teamed together to start a Reformed Blog Aggregator that is called Post Tenebrus Lux. I'm going to moderate this and in the next few days I plan to put up a kind of vision statement and guidelines for it and will be inviting reformed bloggers from everywhere to join me in this.

However, for now I wanted to float an idea by those of you who would consider yourselves to be Reformed. I am thinking of hosting a "Carnival of the Reformation," which would be devoted to advocacy of the distinctives of Reformed theology. My initial thought is to host the first one on October 31 of this year, as this is Reformation Day. I don't have the time and energy to do this every week and the topic is so narrow that I don't think it would be wise to do a weekly carnival. Plus, I really, really like the Christian Carnival and don't want to compete with it. I still hope that most of those who are interested in such things will make a regular practice of entering the Christian Carnival, as well as some of the others.

So, I am thinking that we might do this "Carnival of the Reformation" once every month or two depending on interest. We would keep the format like the other carnivals, i.e. you would be asked to enter a post you have written since the last carnival. This would open the door for you to enter posts that have been composed over the prior month or two.

I am also considering having each carnival be devoted to a single theme. If there is interest in doing this I would want the first carnival to be devoted to the theme of Sola Scriptura. Future carnivals would be devoted to the other "Sola's" of the Reformation, and then, once those were completed we could move on to carnivals on the themes of the five points of Calvinism, and other things like "what is a reformed worldview," reformed spirituality, reformed sins, a reformed view of politics, evangelism, education, and other topics of interest. So, whereas the Christian Carnival and the other carnivals are open to entries on anything, this would require entries on a single topic.

Entries could be expositions of scripture related to a topic, a theological essay on the topic, a story illustrating the topic, or a testimony of how God has used a particular doctrine in someone's life. Someone might want to write an essay on "The Relevance of Sola Scriptura in a Postmodern World," or "How can we proclaim the doctrine of sola fides in a pluralistic society," or "What does God's sovereignty have to do with my daughter's ballet recital?" I'm being a bit silly on that last one but I am saying that to say that I'm not interested only in theological treatises. I would love to see some of our bloggers use their creativity to address topics that aren't addressed in the standard systematic theologies and show how a reformed worldview affects all areas of life.

So, this comes as a question to those of you who are Reformed out there. Do any of you have an interest in such a carnival? If so, please leave a comment. I'll probably send out an e-mail to some folks in the next couple of weeks because I know there are reformed bloggers out there who aren't in the blogdom of God and I would like to give many folks the opportunity to participate. I'll judge by the response whether or not to proceed. So for now, if you are interested, please let me know by leaving a comment on this post. Thanks.