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Friday, June 10, 2005
2 Straw Men Anyone who reads the comments on this blog need to remember two things. They've been said before, but they need to guide your interpretation of almost everything that you read about on this blog and, thus, assume about us as people. 1) This blog does not represent the sum total of our belief systems. This represents the sometimes, but rarely, and somewhat, but hardly, organized thoughts of four people who spend most of their days raising and enjoying children, loving wives, eating, working to bring home money for families, reading books, etc. We don't go from our computers to some coffee house and start telling everyone how horrible churches are. This happens to be our sounding board, and they do not, and should not be taken as, the sum total of our spiritual lives or walks with Christ. 2) We live in Tulsa, Oklahoma... enough said. Many people who read this blog do not live in the buckle of the Bible belt, where the evangelical, conservative politi-church still exercises an almost puritan-like grip over society. Most places in America don't identify with the level of control that exists here, and so they misinterpret our criticism as being universal. It is not. We have some friends who live in a "blue state." They've actually had people get hostile toward them when they say they're Christians. About the only place they meet other Christians is at their local church. That's very different from how it is here in the midwest, where everyone is a Christian (but, in the words of Keith Wheeler, "In the place where everyone is a Christian, no one's a Christian"). The institution doesn't play the sustaining role here that it does in other places, so "taking the good with the bad" isn't necessarily the only option. Just thought I'd tell ya.
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Jimmy Doyle is a dad, husband,
teacher, friend, and other things. Currently he's just trying to figure out what it means to follow Christ and be in community with others. He enjoys having conversations with fellow pilgrims on the journey.
Stephen Zedler has a wife and three kids who he loves very much. He has been called by God to study and teach history, particularly U.S.
history. He also believes that God has called him to reform the way children are educated in America.