"We began to write and we began to find each other, we began to learn and be challenged, we began to realize we weren't as alone as we thought we were. "The internet gave women like me - women who are outside of the usual power and leadership narratives and structures - a voice and a community," Bessey told RNS by email. At the same time, Bessey's blog has brought her speaking engagements and inspired two books - "Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women" and "Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith" - with a third in the works. Bessey now has nearly 43,000 followers on Twitter and about 38,000 on Facebook. In many places, blogging seems to have become all about personal branding.
When Sarah Bessey started blogging in 2005, she saw it as a way to keep in touch with friends and family.Īnd that was in the early days of the Christian blogosphere, which she remembers as an "oasis of community" - strangers sharing everything from parenting tips to theology and filling comment sections with "lively and respectful" dialogue.
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