Welcome to part two of the 5-Year Anniversary Banner of Heaven Retrospective! In part one, we did little more than talk about what we’re going to talk about–the post was little more than a teaser, really. In this part, we will review the origins of the Banner of Heaven Weblog (“BoH”), by reading together a document that virtually no one–not even the most veteran bloggernacclers–has ever seen.

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On May 30, 2005, the following passage was recorded in the Bloggernacle:

When in the course of the bloggernacle it becomes necessary for one blog to assume the separate and equal station to which it is entitled, a decent respect for the other blogs out there requires that they should declare the reason that impels them to exist.

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Below are my standard best of the box selections, but first I’ll break out by box the 418 posts that have accumulated in my Google Reader over the last 17 days since BB11 was posted on May 6. Boxes 1 and 5 are consistently light; Boxes 2 and 6 are generally overflowing.

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We hereby solicit nominations for the best posts from around the Bloggernacle for March-April 2010.

Series and things: JI provides an excellent review of the Claremont Mormon Studies Conference; FMH once again discusses Women and Authority: Re-emerging Mormon Feminism; at Mormon Matters, Part 2 of a discussion of Widtsoe’s A Rational Theology;

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