Friday
Mar142003
blogs4God Controversy 3.0
Friday, March 14, 2003 at 9:24AM
Another controversy is raging over blogs4God, this time over a decision to disallow anonymous bloggers until they've established a track record. This is the third controversy this year by my count. Something good has come out of this controversy. Rachel's created a visual psalm which is very well-done and moving. I really appreciate the honest exchange of ideas, even contrary ones, in the blogging world. The decision by Dean is fair game for discussion. But is part of this interpersonal? I'm wondering if we're doing any better than the traditonal church has historically done in resolving interpersonal issues and forgiving. I'm not saying this to condemn; I include myself in this. I read this quote by Saint Francis of Assisi today:
You should not let a single person in the world, whatever sin that person may have committed, come before your eyes and depart without having found mercy with you. And should that person not ask for mercy from you, then you must ask it of him. And were that person to come to you a thousand times, continue to love them so as to lead them back to the right path. Always have compassion, for all of us have sinned.
Reader Comments (2)
I completely agree Darryl.... You are a minister, you've had experience with this. what do you do when you have asked for forgiveness, shown and continue to show mercy, offer all you have, and the other person refuses? What do you do when you have to come to terms with shaking the dust off, still hoping for peace and the other person continues to refuse? What do you do when you set strong boundaries and the other person keeps up an attack? You offer mediation, you let them dictate the terms of peace, but they don't know what peace is? So you stay before God, keep short account of your own sin (additudes and behaviour) and release them as much as is possible. What else can anyone in situations like that do to honour Jesus Christ?
We are currently working on a technical solution that will allow for anonymous bloggers to sign up, while keeping our readers safe. This system can, and eventually will be expanded to allow non-moderators to submit caches for posting, and some other fun stuff. Please be patient and give us some time to implement it. We've only got one code-monkey and he's already hip deep in bits.