I am happy to be staying with Jesus Creed, a wonderful site. Beliefnet has resolved some of the technical issues that made life at that “café” challenging early on. Jesus Creed continues to be a great blog for keeping up with current thinking and scholarship in the Christian world. I’m writing this entry because I happened to google "Jesus Creed" yesterday morning, and to my amazement, fifth on the list was my blog, declaring that I was leaving Jesus Creed.
The lesson is that blogs are forever.( And that people read them.) The current fact, however, is that I am still a loyal Jesus Creeder. Please suggest to your friends to click on this blog entry so that this pronouncement can displace the earlier blog thread. (Disclaimer: I get nothing material from this whatsoever, so click away freely.)
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
On leaving and returning to Jesus Creed
Since writing this blog, Beliefnet has cleared up some of the issues with Jesus Creed, so I'm back ... andstill think it's a great blog.
I've come to the reluctant conclusion that I have to leave the Jesus Creed blog. I don't want to. But the difficulties of trying to navigate Beliefnet, Jesus Creed's new home, have defeated me. I can't take the time to watch the swirling beach ball go round and round while I hope my comment may post. I can't wait for minutes on end while I try to scroll ... I won't go on with the tiresome list of problems.
I feel sad about this because Jesus Creed was the blog that got me started, and I still find it a wonderful forum for intelligent discussion about the Bible and contemporary religious thought. I think it is the best blog on the Internet. Scot, to whom I've complained, has sent my complaints on to Beliefnet. I will check in from time to time to see if the site has improved but I am not expecting to be able to post there again. I will post summaries of Scot's blogs that I find particularly interesting and my responses here.
A wonderful outcome of Scot's JC blog is the cyberfriends I've made on that site, including Ted and Peggy (the Abbess) who have been doing some interesting blogs lately that I encourage everyone to take a look at. I will be moving my energies to become (I hope) more active on their blogs and on this blog. The Empire may have killed Jesus Creed for me, but Scot's work lives through his disciples ...
Scot has been more than generous in conversation with me about problems with the Beliefnet site, and I hope they get resolved.I've suggested some alternatives to him, such as a subscription to his "old" blog, but at the moment he is committed to trying to make Beliefnet work. In the meantime, I'm interested in the response of other Jesus Creeders to the new Beliefnet site. Has it been difficult for you to navigate? Do you have any tips?
I've come to the reluctant conclusion that I have to leave the Jesus Creed blog. I don't want to. But the difficulties of trying to navigate Beliefnet, Jesus Creed's new home, have defeated me. I can't take the time to watch the swirling beach ball go round and round while I hope my comment may post. I can't wait for minutes on end while I try to scroll ... I won't go on with the tiresome list of problems.
I feel sad about this because Jesus Creed was the blog that got me started, and I still find it a wonderful forum for intelligent discussion about the Bible and contemporary religious thought. I think it is the best blog on the Internet. Scot, to whom I've complained, has sent my complaints on to Beliefnet. I will check in from time to time to see if the site has improved but I am not expecting to be able to post there again. I will post summaries of Scot's blogs that I find particularly interesting and my responses here.
A wonderful outcome of Scot's JC blog is the cyberfriends I've made on that site, including Ted and Peggy (the Abbess) who have been doing some interesting blogs lately that I encourage everyone to take a look at. I will be moving my energies to become (I hope) more active on their blogs and on this blog. The Empire may have killed Jesus Creed for me, but Scot's work lives through his disciples ...
Scot has been more than generous in conversation with me about problems with the Beliefnet site, and I hope they get resolved.I've suggested some alternatives to him, such as a subscription to his "old" blog, but at the moment he is committed to trying to make Beliefnet work. In the meantime, I'm interested in the response of other Jesus Creeders to the new Beliefnet site. Has it been difficult for you to navigate? Do you have any tips?
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