Blogging Toward a Postmodern Faith
Website Expecations

How we hope to make this work:

Although we applaud and are philosophically supportive of the democratic ethos of emerging media, in this project we have reserved the right to exercise a wee bit of good old fashioned hierarchical control! This is what we mean. There may be times when blog entries will be pulled from the site. If and when this ever happens, it will only be in an effort to keep the discussion civil, on topic, and intelligent.

So here are a few community rules we need you to buy into while being a part of this project; they include simple things like kindness and respect. It is important that we make every effort to keep our discussion civil at all times. This does not preclude the need for a robust and spirited exchange. Let's just be sure to keep what heat there is on the ideas and not on the person. Speaking of ideas, we will also ask that you keep to the topics that are posed by our five main contributors. Avoid making this a venue for soap box politicking or theological proselytizing for any particular stripe of evangelical practice. And last, lets try to keep our entries brief and to the point. There is a place for the extended discourse of your dissertation, but with all due respect, this just isn't it.

One parting note. Not all entries in the web discussion will be included in the final book manuscript published with Paternoster. Basically, after this is all over we have to produce a manuscript that is cohesive, coherent, and works as a book. In order to accomplish this, the editors and Paternoster will select material from the web discussion that is representative and gives the book a unified shape. But that amy mean leaving some good material out too. If, however, your entry makes it into the final manuscript, you'll earn yourself a free copy of the book!

Thanks again for trying this out. We are excited to see how this interchange takes shape. The experimental quality of the project is one the most intriguing and energizing elements of the work. In the end, we hope the thoughts and community shared here will nurture us all toward a more full, more nuanced expression of what a postmodern evangelical faith looks like.