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Tim Bonney wrote:David, I’ve been surprised over recent years how much more conservative you seem to be than when I first started on this forum.
I know your story well of being ousted from your position for not bowing to fundamentalism in the SBC and that always made me consider you a moderate rather than a conservative. Has that changed? Or do you see yourself as a political conservative and a theological moderate? Or something else?
And BTW, there have been a number of more liberal folks who have left this forum including Joshua and Jane among others i could name. If you all want this forum to survive it can’t just be the old guys who started with it. It always needs new blood the way a church does. We aren’t getting that here. I’ve made my pitch a couple of times elsewhere for moving the forum to a less old fashioned location where new people might actually join it. But no one so far seems to like the idea. As a person whose only foot in the Baptist world now is this forum and some Baptist relatives, I don’t have too much of a dog in this fight.
I am sorry you know longer feel this forum is a good place for diverse discussion.
KeithE wrote:If this forum dies (and I hope it doesn’t), please keep it alive for a while. I have made many big efforts to dig up facts/DATA that drive my viewpoints. These efforts are recorded herein.
William Thornton wrote:David is more liberal than when he started here.
William Thornton wrote:I think you have, Timothy. Would be difficult to be SBC. I guess everyone here is to my left, Sandy only slightly I think. Seems the gaps are greater politically.
This is all an example of folks with considerable differences being friends which is why I hate to see people get fed up and quit. I suppose I am less emotionally invested in issues here.
Guess you had a Sunday off like everyone around here.
John Sneed wrote:I am still here. I watch this website every single day. I don't post much because, as mentioned, I usually end up regretting it. So, I read, but post very little. I will mention, sometimes I think I am in a different universe than the people who post here, but I bear no ill will towards anyone who posts here. Not a soul. And William, I think I am to your right. If not, we are very close.
I don't think everyone here is my friend, but I have made friends of several of the people here. When David lost his position all those years ago, I offered to write a recommendation letter for him. He declined. I believe he thinks I was too "fundamentalist" for him, or that I would attempt to sabotage him. My intent at the time, was to write him a very forward and cordial recommendation. I like David. It is true, by the way, that, before I was an SB pastor, I had been a member of an IFB church. But the IFB group was far too tight a fit for me. Like a necktie tied too tight. I was happier as ab SB.
I still count several people here as friends. Bruce had constructive advice for me as I worked my way through the thesis for my master's degree. I recently retired from the workforce to devote more time to my disabled wife. I am about a year away from finishing my PhD in education. So, I have several irons in the fire. But I keep up with you all every day. To you all, stay safe. Be well.
John Sneed wrote:I am still here. I watch this website every single day. I don't post much because, as mentioned, I usually end up regretting it. So, I read, but post very little. I will mention, sometimes I think I am in a different universe than the people who post here, but I bear no ill will towards anyone who posts here. Not a soul. And William, I think I am to your right. If not, we are very close.
I don't think everyone here is my friend, but I have made friends of several of the people here. When David lost his position all those years ago, I offered to write a recommendation letter for him. He declined. I believe he thinks I was too "fundamentalist" for him, or that I would attempt to sabotage him. My intent at the time, was to write him a very forward and cordial recommendation. I like David. It is true, by the way, that, before I was an SB pastor, I had been a member of an IFB church. But the IFB group was far too tight a fit for me. Like a necktie tied too tight. I was happier as ab SB.
I still count several people here as friends. Bruce had constructive advice for me as I worked my way through the thesis for my master's degree. I recently retired from the workforce to devote more time to my disabled wife. I am about a year away from finishing my PhD in education. So, I have several irons in the fire. But I keep up with you all every day. To you all, stay safe. Be well.
KeithE wrote:If this forum dies (and I hope it doesn’t), please keep it alive for a while. I have made many big efforts to dig up facts/DATA that drive my viewpoints. These efforts are recorded herein.
Bruce Gourley wrote:I
For what it is worth, I would concur with those of you suggesting that the time for forums like this is pretty much past, and that moving to a FB Group would be easier and quicker and even more intuitive these days to access and use, albeit losing the archive ability that we have with the forums. (We could in effect shut down the forums and archive the posts.)
I know I would be more likely to rejoin the conversation to some degree if it were a FB Group.
- Bruce
David Flick wrote:.
.I have a Facebook account. Don't use it very much. Will join if I can figure out how..
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