The Christian blogosphere: you get content or you get good
delivery. One rarely seems to find the two together.
Rachel Held Evans’ site and many like it are state of the
art, if you can stomach the social justice whining: nice graphics, clean
presentation and efficient messaging perfectly calibrated for her target
audience. She and others like her market themselves and their opinions with a
scrupulous professionalism and — oh yeah —reliably mutilate scripture on an
almost-daily basis, if you enjoy that sort of thing.
Meanwhile numerous well-written and biblical posts get
ignored because their authors haven’t the wherewithal to format them
attractively and make them even slightly readable or their host sites
convenient to navigate.
That’s if you can get to them, of course. Try to navigate
the Good News 4 U site, which seems
like it started as one of those good ideas that, sadly, nobody followed through
on. It’s easy to get to the main page of each section (though the science posts are buried
under the heading “FAQ”) but when you try to click through to older posts, you
wind up back on the main page. If anybody connected with the site has ever
noticed this, it is not evident. 23 of Windheuser’s 33 posts remain
inaccessible to most readers, and certainly to me.
Which is a shame, because Michael Windheuser has something
to say, if we could get him posting somewhere we can actually read him. His ten
science articles you can currently access are well worth your time.
Michael G. Windheuser,
Ph.D. posts at goodnews4u.net, an
evangelical ministry. As with all such collaborative efforts, the site is a
mixed bag depending on the writer. It should go without saying (but doesn’t, so
I’ll say it) that as with every site I mention here, enthusiasm about a
particular post or writer is not a blanket endorsement of everything they
believe or an endorsement of the views of everyone with whom they associate. It
is also my personal opinion and may or may not reflect that of others who post
at ComingUntrue.
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