Blog on the Lillypad
Friday, October 15, 2004
Catching Up
Well, I have been quite busy over the last two days, fixing the code on my blogs to get them into acceptable form for RSS Feeds. (If you don't know what an RSS feed is, think of it like the AP newswire, but on the internet. If you get your blog to become a feed, you supply your blog entries to subscribers all over the net. And yes, thee are thousands of feed subscribers.)
SECRET RADIO went into feed format very nicely, then I messed with it and broke it for the feed. I have to re-submit it. BLOG ON THE LILLYPAD has been so jury rigged that I have to do the RSS Feed manually through BlogStreet, but it takes only a minute after the entry is written.
Dave Wayne, the pastor who runs the Jolly Blogger site and sponsors the League of Reformed Bloggers, has referenced SECRET RADIO in three successive entries on his blog. So turnabout is fair play. Dave has sent many readers my way, which I appreciate. He writes clearly and articulate essays and is a well educated man. PCA, of course!
With the influx of new readers, the mailbox has been full, so I must now catch up.
A woman reader from way, way up north writes, "I had to write to tell you I am still recovering from reading most of the Secret Radio posts. How can I possibly adequately thank you for putting down in writing what has dogged me these 38 years of being a Christian...Thank you, thank you for what you've written. It sheds light and hope in the hearts of many who have limped away from fundamentalism confused and hurting but still wanting to do what is right."
That's always wonderful to hear, and that particular e-mail quite literally brought me to my knees in prayer. It's easy, in the furor so often raised over my posts, to neglect the crucial truth of how precious the lives of the victims and survivors of IFBx are. Christ has died for them, and their price is His price, the price that paid for my soul as well.
Another, more straightforward assent comes from down here in the Carolinas: "I wanted to thank you for the amount of time you spend writing the things you do. I also wanted to thank you for the way you write as well. I know that you get many "verbal hits" both positive and negative but....They [the IFBx preachers who harangue me] cannot control you, they will never be able to control you, and they hate that. I think at times they simply want to intimidate you or just embarass you. Stick to your guns or in this case your keyboard....I have personally seen so many things done "behind the curtains of fundamentalism" and that is why I value your work, applaud your stance, and I enjoy your writing immensely. Thank you for your time and your consistency on these topics."
My thanks to all readers who take the time to express appreciation. I try to answer all e-mails wthin 24 hours.
Well, I have been quite busy over the last two days, fixing the code on my blogs to get them into acceptable form for RSS Feeds. (If you don't know what an RSS feed is, think of it like the AP newswire, but on the internet. If you get your blog to become a feed, you supply your blog entries to subscribers all over the net. And yes, thee are thousands of feed subscribers.)
SECRET RADIO went into feed format very nicely, then I messed with it and broke it for the feed. I have to re-submit it. BLOG ON THE LILLYPAD has been so jury rigged that I have to do the RSS Feed manually through BlogStreet, but it takes only a minute after the entry is written.
Dave Wayne, the pastor who runs the Jolly Blogger site and sponsors the League of Reformed Bloggers, has referenced SECRET RADIO in three successive entries on his blog. So turnabout is fair play. Dave has sent many readers my way, which I appreciate. He writes clearly and articulate essays and is a well educated man. PCA, of course!
With the influx of new readers, the mailbox has been full, so I must now catch up.
A woman reader from way, way up north writes, "I had to write to tell you I am still recovering from reading most of the Secret Radio posts. How can I possibly adequately thank you for putting down in writing what has dogged me these 38 years of being a Christian...Thank you, thank you for what you've written. It sheds light and hope in the hearts of many who have limped away from fundamentalism confused and hurting but still wanting to do what is right."
That's always wonderful to hear, and that particular e-mail quite literally brought me to my knees in prayer. It's easy, in the furor so often raised over my posts, to neglect the crucial truth of how precious the lives of the victims and survivors of IFBx are. Christ has died for them, and their price is His price, the price that paid for my soul as well.
Another, more straightforward assent comes from down here in the Carolinas: "I wanted to thank you for the amount of time you spend writing the things you do. I also wanted to thank you for the way you write as well. I know that you get many "verbal hits" both positive and negative but....They [the IFBx preachers who harangue me] cannot control you, they will never be able to control you, and they hate that. I think at times they simply want to intimidate you or just embarass you. Stick to your guns or in this case your keyboard....I have personally seen so many things done "behind the curtains of fundamentalism" and that is why I value your work, applaud your stance, and I enjoy your writing immensely. Thank you for your time and your consistency on these topics."
My thanks to all readers who take the time to express appreciation. I try to answer all e-mails wthin 24 hours.
