Category: Blogkeeping

MIA for about 3 hours

Sorry, gentle readers, if you tried to visit the blogstead from about noon to 3pm or so, you would have found a nasty “account suspended” page.

Scary. Nasty. Let’s just forget it ever happened.

We are still figuring out the problem, or I should say the experts are trying to figure it out.

For awhile, some of the features of the blog will not work – commenting features and the like. If you see anything disturbing lurking about, please email me at warrenthrockmorton at gmail dot com.

UPDATE: If you have been trying to access the site, you will know that the site is erratic today. Apparently, there is an attack of some kind on the site which is creating problems. We are tracking this down but the site may be spotty for awhile.

Top Ten Posts – 2011

To reflect on 2011, I have listed here the ten most popular posts in terms of visits this year. Two of the posts were written in prior years but were visited frequently this year. In addition to being popular, I think they are representative of the stories and issues which I wrote about this year.

1. The Trail of Tears remembered

2. Uganda update: Anti-Homosexuality Bill on tomorrow’s agenda

3. Committee chair says Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill may not be considered

4. What would dominionists do with gays?

5. A major study of child abuse and homosexuality revisited (2009)

6. NARTH is not primarily composed of mental health professionals

7. Only the gay die young: Examining the claims of shorter life expectancy for homosexuals (2007)

8. The evangelical blackout of research on sexual orientation

9. William Penn founded the Quakers and other tall tales from David Barton

10. Was the Jefferson Bible an evangelism tool?

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Blogkeeping: Holiday schedule

Ah, ’tis the season to be jolly. And for me, ’tis the season to reduce the number of blog posts I write.

This will probably hold true through the month of December. After the finals are given and graded, it will be time to relax a bit. There are some stories or issues that could change that plan but for now, that is the plan.

Let me take a moment to explain the icons in the left hand column of the blog. The first one is my first effort at writing children’s fiction. Over the past three years, I have written three short stories for my son. He has been keen on having me publish them, so the first one is available on Amazon as an ebook. I won’t be quitting my day job anytime soon, but I have had fun writing these stories and most importantly, he likes it.

The next icon is to a book on bullying prevention called Bullycide. Brenda High at Bully Police put this together as a resource for anyone who wants to make a difference. There are prevention lesson plans, articles and vignettes that promote safe schools. Any benefit I get from the sales, I put right back into the Golden Rule Pledge.

Then after the blog admin links, you can search Amazon’s website. Anything you purchase through that link generates a small royalty to my blogmaster, Paul Oyler. The same is true for the B&H Cameras icon. Anything purchased there will help Paul out a bit. And blogmastering is his day job so I like to help him out. He does a good job.

Blessings on everyone this season. And now a little seasonal music for your enjoyment…

I am scheduled to be on CNN Newsroom Sunday

I will be on CNN Newsroom Sunday at 8:30am (ET) 7/24 to talk about evangelicals and reparative therapy.
I believe the focus is going to be on the recent issues relating to Marcus Bachmann’s clinic, Exodus, and Mark Yarhouse’s research demonstrating no orientation change on average in mixed orientation marriages.