Comments on: Broadway Baptist Church- the ongoing directory dispute goes online ugly http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/10/broadway-baptist-church-the-ongoing-directory-dispute-goes-online/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:35:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Bene Diction http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/10/broadway-baptist-church-the-ongoing-directory-dispute-goes-online/#comment-98923 Bene Diction Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:09:29 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/10/broadway-baptist-church-the-ongoing-directory-dispute-goes-online/#comment-98923 Dr. Ralph: Thanks for the passwords. A few years ago, sides would have used email, kept it local; now disputes are thrown online at will. A password protected site is an odd twist. It screams look at us! Listen to us! It's one thing to shine a light, share a story, lay out positions - a difficulty with reading local church fights online is our curiousity leads to being guilty of the same sins anyone in a dispute can fall into: gossip, secrecy, unkindness, pride, intolerance, rancour, mockery, haughtiness. Toxic stuff. Does going public give disputing church folk access to qualified mediators, skilled negotiators? Healers? Are we readers served by our voyeurism, is the body of Christ helped or harmed? Are local churches going to have to consider by-laws, and if they did would disputing congregants honour them? As Broadway Baptist dirty laundry is aired publicly I'm curious about ethics. This is going down no matter who weighs in. Dr. Ralph:

Thanks for the passwords.
A few years ago, sides would have used email, kept it local; now disputes are thrown online at will.

A password protected site is an odd twist.
It screams look at us! Listen to us!

It’s one thing to shine a light, share a story, lay out positions - a difficulty with reading local church fights online is our curiousity leads to being guilty of the same sins anyone in a dispute can fall into: gossip, secrecy, unkindness, pride, intolerance, rancour, mockery, haughtiness.
Toxic stuff.
Does going public give disputing church folk access to qualified mediators, skilled negotiators? Healers?
Are we readers served by our voyeurism, is the body of Christ helped or harmed?

Are local churches going to have to consider by-laws, and if they did would disputing congregants honour them?
As Broadway Baptist dirty laundry is aired publicly I’m curious about ethics.

This is going down no matter who weighs in.

]]> By: Dr Ralph http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/10/broadway-baptist-church-the-ongoing-directory-dispute-goes-online/#comment-98913 Dr Ralph Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:12:56 +0000 http://www.benedictionblogson.com/2008/02/10/broadway-baptist-church-the-ongoing-directory-dispute-goes-online/#comment-98913 For the curious, the "Friends" site at http://www.ffbroadway.org can be accessed with the username 8000 and password 5678. Information wants to be free. Go tell'em what you think. For the curious, the “Friends” site at http://www.ffbroadway.org can be accessed with the username 8000 and password 5678.

Information wants to be free. Go tell’em what you think.

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