Diocese of Maine uses online interview videos

The Diocese of Maine is using online video interviews as a part of their discernment process in electing a new bishop co-adjutor. This innovation will allow many in that geographically large diocese to observe, see and hear candidates answer questions about their desire to become the next bishop of Maine.

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What other videos or information would help you discern what you need to know in an election? What about a video of each one preaching or presiding at a meeting?

Posted by Ann Fontaine on August 21, 2007 12:07 PM | |
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With the 2008 presidential election cycle moving to YouTube, who wouldn't have seen this coming?

This same general idea was executed to good effect in the last episcopal election for the Diocese of Colorado a few years back, with web viewers able to see one extended take of each candidate responding to five or six questions that had already been provided to them. The ways in which they answered -- the nonverbal content we'd have never gotten without being in front of the candidate in times previous -- told us almost as much as what was spoken.

For some, such a format proves helpful, and I find myself in this camp, desiring as much information as I might be able to gain. Preaching and presiding at eucharist? Why not? Video of a candidate presiding at a church meeting? Maybe. But couldn't that be something of a rabbit trail?

Posted by Torey Lightcap [TypeKey Profile Page] | August 21, 2007 2:38 PM

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