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Story from Associated Baptist Press (via cbfonline newstand) about dismissal of longtime CHRISTIAN INDEX editor (Georgia) Click link above to read entire story.
Neal, who is a 28-year employee of the state convention, had been under increasing pressure from conservative leadership for several years. The Index, they contended, was not doing enough to advance the cause of the Southern Baptist Convention and of conservatives in Georgia.
In 2001, the paper's board of directors forbade Neal from publishing any announcements, advertisements or editorials relating to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. They also demanded that no mention be made of CBF in the Index except in news items "which the editor believes directly affect Georgia Baptists and/or Southern Baptists." They further required Neal to consult with the convention's executive director or other board members before publishing any item that referenced CBF.
1:20:55 PM 
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Cluetrain Theses Number 3 continues my "extraction of theological insights" from the Cluetrain Manifesto that the Church can use to benefit its online strategy
11:32:32 AM
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Habits of The High-Tech Heart is a good read. A lot of it bothered me. But it asked some worthy questions. It left us to ponder what, if anything, we should do as theological communities, to bring alternatives to online life. I think we need to be a "prescence" there. We need to set examples of civility and hospitality, and to be adept at "telling our story" online, and using database technology to communicate an "integrated whole" theologically, which means to constantly relate conversations about issues to resources for further exploration of those issues, and relate the money in our budgets to the ministries they support (by linking to stories and descriptions and testimonies and conversartions about those programs), and relate sermons that have been preached to issues they raise and ministries we are doing that address those issues, and on and on and on. We need to "get geeky" in our thinking about databases and Church websites. (It takes a geek to even say something like that)
10:05:36 AM
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Therefore, we need again to reconcile our embellishments of technology with the reality of what it means to be human. In spite of all of the changes in human culture and society over the millennia, human nature remains essentially the same.
In this from the conclusion of the final chapter of the book, Sojourning With Heart, Schultze here affirms something that reveals a major flaw , from my perspective, in the tone of the book's approach. It seems to render moot the constant barrage of demonization of nearly all aspects of online communication, becasue after all, human beings and human nature haven't changed that much. For centuries before the Internet, people were "objectifying" truth and centering "truth" in the pages of a book, and deifying interpretation rather than inspiration. We see this in fundamentalism, such as in the arrogance of Southern Baptist leadership today who have the audacity to "require" particular interpretations of their various agency and institutional leaders. This is an "instrumentalism" in the guise of virtue. It's been happening for centuries.
Read on in Good Stewards of Online Community
8:55:09 AM
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