It’s time to talk, says Dr. Bob Cornwall, Pastor of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Lompoc, and columnist of the Lompoc Record. This well articulated post, in the SOMA blog is a rewrite of an equally well-thought out reflective op-ed piece on the Lompoc Record.

I resonate with Dr Cornwall’s call to talk - for those of us who call ourselves evangelicals - to no longer hide behind our discomfort of those who are different from us. There is so much we can talk about. For instance, I often wonder why is it that we find it so hard to forgive sexual sin.

Why is it that respectable leaders can be hot-tempered, or haughty, or even arrogant, and yet they can continue to capture society’s respect and hold positions of leadership and power even in the church. Yet, if someone is entangled in sexual impropriety, we have a completely different view of such people?

Why the double standard?

For instance, as I have pointed out elsewhere, Read the rest of this entry »

Well, I have been out of the blogosphere for a little while! Although I have been reading one or two blogs every now and then, I have not been keeping up with my own blogging. But have a look at this:

This is a graphic of all the visits to my site for the past week, and you can see what happened last Thursday (why all that busy on Thanksgiving Day, I wonder? It’s not that I was holding a sale here or something!). The number of site visits went way up than normal and there were also multiple pages viewed per visit. At about 10:30 pm PST, the visits abruptly stopped, and when I tried to log in that evening, I found that the server was not responding. I reported this to my hosting company and they spent several hours to fix it. Visits only resumed on the following morning at about 2 or 3 a.m. I don’t think the number of visits could have brought down my site!

Interestingly, all the extra visits have come via Comcast.net and were from that domain! And they all landed on this page, which was one of the first Christian Carnivals that I ever hosted. But I wasn’t able to trace the referral link from the Sitemeter stats. They must have put in some kind of script to block the referred link. If someone knows how to trace the referral links through some other means please let me know. I checked out Comcast.net’s page that day and could not find any link from there. Unless they have some kind of special page for members, and since I am not a member, I cannot tell. Does anyone know what happened? Anyway, this phenomenon sort of spurred me out of Blog-o-hiatus and I am back officially. Boy, as you can see, I haven’t been updating this blog for a while now. Kind of miss that! Expect more stuff out of this bloke here from today on. Do stop to say hi, you miss me (even if you don’t, it helps the ego, you know and us bloggers need that massaged sometime).