Comments on: Curious Minds Want To Know: Does the IM Audience REALLY Exist?

By: Feliz Navidad

Feliz Navidad — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:27:54 +0000

I’m afraid this response typifies exactly what is wrong with so much of the evangelical so-called church — their knee jerk response is to condemn any thought, no matter how cogent, as “not biblical” without any knowledge of or dependency upon Scripture. “Otherness” is by definition of the devil. This is fundamentalism at its worst.

By: Does this audience really exist? « Irresistible (Dis)Grace

Does this audience really exist? « Irresistible (Dis)Grace — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:03:04 +0000

[...] Does this audience really exist? November 21, 2009 — Andrew I was going through Internet Monk, as I occasionally do, and I came across this post: Curious Minds Want to Know: Does the IM Audience REALLY Exist? [...]

By: Steve

Steve — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:48:13 +0000

God bless you, Michael. I’ve been a regular visitor for, gosh it must be 5 years and 2 churches. You have no idea (actually, you probably do) as to how widespread the bewilderment is within the evangelical community. Not angry dissent, just sort of a stunned realization of some of the severe flaws, both in evangelical *tradition* and the *contemporary* evangelical church. A vague nausea whose source is the *priestcraft* and the marketing and the extra-biblical rulebooks which seem to abound………Where’s Jesus, and where are the people trying to get their heads around His message? They are many places, and this is one of them.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:06:05 +0000

I consider this blog an important part of my Christian formation and spiritual direction. I’m here, and I’m definitely not going anywhere.

By: textjunkie

textjunkie — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:02:18 +0000

I’m here, and more real than I probably have a right to be, though I’m not part of the post-evangelical audience per se. (Was never evangelical to begin with!) But you come from such a different part of the Christian spectrum from me that I can’t stop reading…

By: Mich

Mich — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:10:14 +0000

I came.
I saw.
I read.
I staid.

God bless, and keep writing!

By: Nikky

Nikky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:04:08 +0000

O, and that was my first comment ever, have been reading for about 2 years, came over from a link on the Scrupe Group, a group for sufferers of scrupulosity (religious OCD).

By: Nikky

Nikky — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:59 +0000

I am real. Nigerian. grateful for this blog.

By: tc

tc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:50:50 +0000

“Do I find community here, that exists not in my tangilble life. Yes, Yes a thousand times yes.”

ditto.

By: Sally D

Sally D — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:55:09 +0000

Well, hang out here at your own risk, then : ) I’ve also been in that particular box, but have found that the more I listen to thoughtful, caring, grounded discussions (grounded not only in Scripture but reflected in people’s own experience), the less comfortable/complacent the ‘observer’ role becomes and the more I’m challenged to make new moves of my own.

The only thing I’ve ever ground my teeth about here, is the choice of an AMiA priest as I felt very disappointed that the voice of my faith tradition (liberal, Anglo-Catholic) would not be represented. But hey, you can’t have *everything* even on a Blog as generally fabulous as this one, and I’m happy to carry on being a friendly ‘outsider’.

Like many others, I often post links to friends and colleagues who have expressed their appreciation.

Sally D, South Africa