It is true that the blogging world can often be banal and silly, sometimes even scandalous and a stumbling block to the Gospel. It is also true that done properly it provides a heretofore nonexistent medium for worldwide discussion, taking important conversations out of the world of academia and theological journals and making them available to every Christian. It used to be that you wrote a book, published it and waited for the reviews but now the review process is interactive and alive, allowing readers to ask questions and authors to sharpen their thinking in ways that perhaps they didn’t think of before.
Without a medium such as blogging I wonder what I would believe today. The same thing I believed in 1995? Maybe so. And I'm glad that didn't happen.
When complaining about blogging, does anyone today stop and think how much junk has been printed into genuine books over the centuries?
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