Hi Myelo,
While I appreciate your suggestion, what I was actually hoping for was a single thread that would allow some of the Evangelicals to communicate news, updates, prayer requests, conferences, that kind of thing. Not merely a thread for me to post stuff. At present, we can post stuff in a piecemeal fashion, but occasionally it would be nice if I could ask the brothers I've been privileged to meet via AH to pray for say a struggling missionary in Yemen without inevitably having to engage in 15-20 pages of debate on "the crusades" or say to discuss efforts at ending the self-imposed segregation of the church without having pictures of Beyonce (as attractive as the dear lady is) posted in the same thread.
I'm happy to answer tough questions, to debate, to offer a reason for the hope I have, to discuss my own life and calling and so on, but all I was looking for was one single innocuous thread where information could be shared or issues developed from something approaching a common worldview. For instance, could you imagine the difficulty of trying to have a meaningful discussion of a particular kind of tree frog if the discussion was constantly coming back to whether or not the tree frog existed, having to defend the very idea that there are differences between frogs, random assertions that all frogs generally and this frog in particular are stupid and/or evil and so on.
Perhaps its not possible, or even desirable that we do so, I don't know. I sincerely appreciated Hangs (keep a low profile) message heck I'm sure no one would be uptight about hard or serious questions from non-evangelicals here. But can't we have one teeny weeny thread that is at least beyond Beyonce and her belly jewelery?
- SEAGOON
