Comments on: Blog changes

By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:50:46 +0000

I’m confused – someone said that Craig was not anti-gay and someone else said that he was against gay marriage. I’m curious which one of these is the truth?????

By: Eddy

Eddy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 02:00:32 +0000

Thanks Ann–and others who are praying as well. I haven’t heard from any of my brothers today…that means that she’s holding her own. They’ve promised an update by the weekend.

By: jag

jag — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:34:19 +0000

Eddy –

I hope your mother feels better soon…she’ll be in our prayers.

By: jag

jag — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:31:39 +0000

Warren –

“I do not like to give serious questions of policy an off the cuff response. For me it is not as simple as that.”

I completely respect that…I’d rather you ignore such questions than answer them inaccurately. Your point makes sense.

By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:20:12 +0000

They most certainly are, Eddy!!!!!!!!

By: Ann

Ann — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 04:37:10 +0000

Eddy,

Prayers are being said for your mom –

By: Warren

Warren — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:39:04 +0000

Jag – I am aware of the Family Scholars Blog and do look in on it now and then. But there is no input and you are correct it loses some of the immediacy. My issue is not that I want praise. I just cannot answer all the questions in the manner deserved. Of late, anyway there is no time. I think I would be fine to leave comments on if commenters could just register their views. I probably need to ignore more too. I hope to get to much of what was bothering some of you in the months to come but I do not like to give serious questions of policy an off the cuff response. For me it is not as simple as that.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 00:22:31 +0000

I posted a comment on the Mother Earth thread about my initial response to Wayne Besen’s intrusion into the thread. “Oh, look, it’s our ‘can we self-moderate’ test, already.” Not bad. (For the rest, see Mother Earth.)

BTW: Prayers, please. Mom (back in PA) is down to 74 lbs and has pneumonia. How about ‘wisdom (and follow though) for my brothers to know when they need to be updating me’ and ‘wisdom (and peace) for me’ too. (The weight is scary but it helps to realize that mom’s IDEAL weight was only around 100 lbs.) Thanks!

By: jayhuck

jayhuck — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 22:39:19 +0000

Eddy,

That sounds good to me! I’m pretty open to (and usually respond well to) constructive criticism from my fellow bloggers 🙂

Jag,

Thanks!!!!!

By: jag

jag — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:28:39 +0000

Jayhuck –

You owed no one an explanation, and yet thank you for yours…regarding your public and more private apologies.

“I have said on this blog and I have also said this to him in private, that I think he is a good and honorable man with the best of intentions.”

As to this, I don’t think it is a requirement of a respectable contributor to vocalize positive thoughts about the moderator – otherwise, we might as well just say that the blog is only for those who “praise” the person. Hopefully, we don’t make personal attacks period…we keep our critiques professional – about the work, logic, perspective, consistency, etc… And in questioning a previous article, I think personally that’s what you did. People are responsible for the opinions they vocalize and the messages they promote. Myself included.

You also stated:

“I don’t know of any other evangelicals anywhere who would have an open forum like this and not censor it to death – especially regarding this topic.”

There was a fantastic blog called Family Scholars Blog a while ago, but now post without the opportunity for comment. It used to have a variety of opinions from all sides and a very lively group…

But, for similar reasons Warren has noted, have closed their comment section.

I haven’t looked at the blog since.