I thought our community here on SFL might like to see exactly what you all have been up to this year. Here’s a brief report on some of the tops of 2011… Reports courtesy of the Jetpack plugin from WordPress.com Update: Ok, so apparently these stats are way off and should be complete ignored. If [...]

Once again I have taken it upon myself to arbitrarily pick 10 popular posts from the past year and put them in random order. They are as follows: 10. Glib Answers 9. A Small World 8. Trying to Have Revival 7. A Beka Church 6. Rabbit Trail Preaching 5. Gossip That Isn’t About Me 4. [...]

It was three years ago today that during a fit of post-holiday boredom I wrote the first post to appear on SFL. Almost nobody read it. Today there are 1000 posts, 84,000 comments, and, over 3 million lifetime visits to this site. I’m am so honored to have been able to share the last three [...]

Thanks to everyone who let me know that SFL generating a warning page. Apparently, we’ve had a visit by some Russian hackers. Hopefully that issue has now been resolved and once the site has been re-scanned the security warning should vanish. I appreciate your patience.

Due to some pressing personal things I need to focus on, I’ll be spending a couple days away from SFL. Feel free to amuse yourselves on the forums until I return.

Sunday, May 15 at 5 pm Town Hall Seattle is hosting an event which with Andrew Himes (Author of The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family) in conversation with several local religious leaders about the book, and thinking about the fundamentals of faith. To understand the historical and religious [...]

No, this site has not actually been abducted by aliens or taken over by Irish ninjas. I hope all of you are having as much fun on April 1st as I am

For the next week (or so) at SFL, we’ll be exploring the “Baptist Distinctives” as typically implemented in fundamentalist churches. In case you need a refresher as to what the Baptist Distinctives are, here’s a handy acronym. B Biblical Authority A Autonomy of the Local Church P Priesthood of the Believers T Two Ordinances of [...]

In my inbox this morning. We have disabled the following material as a result of a third-party notification from Bob Jones University claiming that this material is infringing: Dr. Rand Hummel Demonstrates How To Blame The Victim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31bZulDew4 Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all [...]

On a pretty regular basis I get requests for new features in the comment section. With hundreds of comments posted each week, folks want more ability to edit, quote, search, etc. Basically, we’ve reached the point where the blog comment function is just not up to the needs of the ever-growing community who chat on [...]