January 14, 2005

Blog For God

Tod Bolsinger is urging his fellow Christian pastors and preachers to Blog, for Christ's sake. "My friends," says Bolsinger, "the blogosphere offers us opportunities to faithful put forth clear witness for Christ in large and influential numbers."

If you followed the blogs immediately after the annual "let’s demythologize and debunk Christianity just in time for the holiday editions" of Time and Newsweek, then you saw the overwhelming and rapid effectiveness of literally hundreds of pastors who posted thoughtful, cogent, articulate responses to the unscholarly and, in some instances, irresponsible articles published by the newsmagazines. The blogosphere allowed even those who would never be quoted by the LA Times an opportunity to respond and then be linked and disseminated across the world in minutes.

No longer do we have to our faith-affirming responses relegated to the "letters to editor" pages a week after the fact while the front pages are filled with long-debunked scandals that might sell a few papers. Instead by writing and linking and writing and linking, we can respond to the challenges posed by skeptics, not with the hue and cry of the hurt, but with the rapid, clear and sober answers that reveal the truth.