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This blogging section is the heart of the Mid-America Union website. It features a diverse selection of pastors and other respected thought leaders sharing insights about God, life, faith, work and relationships in the church and community. Our bloggers comment on news events, expound Scripture, make rambling observations, do travelogues, start discussions, and so on.
We have 15 bloggers online now—more added soon to represent retirees, youth, educators, healthcare and business people, men’s ministries—all with their own perspectives and convictions.
Some bloggers only have time in their busy lives to post once a week. Others will be posting daily, inviting your feedback. When offering a response comment, please honor the following principles of our website:
- Jesus wants us to be nice (your kindergarten teacher was right, after all!). We can disagree without being disagreeable—freely and vigorously challenging each other’s ideas without attacking personally. Of course, no profanity is allowed.
- Our blogs have a purpose—to build up one another while getting the help we need for personal questions and problems. Honest inquiry is invited, but not destructive agendas or pointless arguing. The ultimate goal of this blog is to facilitate selfless service for the Savior in local churches throughout the Mid-America Union.
- Although this website is sponsored by Seventh-day Adventists in Mid-America, we invite comments from anyone anywhere on planet earth, whether or not they are church members. In fact we are quite eager to interact with people who no longer attend church.
- Remember that you speak only for yourself—while on the other hand realizing that everything you say inevitably reflects upon any organization that you may belong to.
To ensure that these principles are followed, each of our bloggers must personally approve every response posted by readers. So please be patient if there is a brief delay before your comment appears.
Remember, don’t expect to agree with everything you read here. Seventh-day Adventism is not a cult where everybody is a Xerox copy of everybody else. Some bloggers are conservative and others less so. Some are funny and others serious—or maybe serious one day and funny the next.
So relax and enjoy our blogs. Think of our new website as a friend to come home to after a hard day’s work—maybe even more interesting than that old TV.
Martin Weber
Webmaster
