As a blogger you are always kind of interested in your blog stats; you always want to know how many people are reading your stuff. Well as the graphic below demonstrates for the dates August 29^th, 30^th, and the 31^st my blog stats spiked; they spiked as corollary to my posts on The Nashville Statement. One of the posts produced some commenting, as you can see, but the real drama happened around that same post on Facebook. Someone I know on Facebook shared the link to that post, and it caused quite a bit of critical feedback. I spent almost all day, off and on, defending what I was actually getting at; since the critics seemed unable to actually engage with what I actually wrote. But what I have concluded is that engaging with things like this, online, are not worth it! Going forward don’t plan on any further posts engaging with The Nashville Statement, or with homosexuality in general. I might, at some point, in the future, I’m sure, talk about human sexuality so on and so forth; but I’ll try not to.

I have grown up my whole life in the evangelical sub-culture, and as far as I am concerned when it comes to anything substantive, theologically and thus socio-culturally it is pretty much bankrupt. It has failed me personally in more ways than I’d like to share here online, but I’ll just register that it has. Evangelicalism, as far as I’m concerned is imploding, and things like the Nashville Statement only continue to reinforce that to me. I am thoroughly exhausted by the posture of the whole movement; it is not about Jesus! And don’t get me wrong, when so many seem to, especially my critics from today, I take the trad view when it comes to homosexuality and human sexuality; I believe the Bible in its various books teaches against it, as does the tradition and chorus of the church. I just don’t think the Fundamentalist/Evangelical way of approaching this is the best way (and that’s what my last post was all about!).

So yeah, don’t come here for any cultural commentary; you won’t find it.