The thought of traveling with that group is already terrifying… but on Sunday morning after they’ve had a few mimosas? Oh my goodness…

At least (in the highest tradition of elders making decisions by no-decision) that’s my quasi-opinion.

that’s the most entertainment I’ve read in along time! and Sir Patrick, would be a good chose!

I mean, I haven’t seen THIS much action since in the early 60’s when a brilliant young cofC minister in Lubbock, Texas, Bill Banowsky, held a terrific debate on the campus of Texas Tech with Anson Mount, the religion editor of Playboy magazine (yes, you read that right – Playboy mag had a religion editor) on “The New Morality.” (Mount debated that morality is situational, including sexual behavior, while Banowsky defended from the Bible that morality is a matter of God’s truths and a matter of right or wrong, no matter how we may act in the “gray” areas of life. And Banowsky did a great job.)

Anyway – Greg – even though you challenge Cecil to find anything about websites or dot.orgs in the Bible (in the version God dictated it directly to King James – – and I’m sure if we searched thoroughly enough we might find those letters somewhere in a row, d-o-t-.-o-r-g, the way MOST cofC purists would do when they wanted to prove they were right), I’m SURE there’s a way we can amicably settle this.

We just agree that we could Google all of this and could come up with just about any research favoring either side of this debate and so call it all off and declare a truce.

Either that, or we bring in a professional, like Patrick Mead, our man of great intelligence and wisdom, who can conduct online dispute resolution counseling with you two for however many years it’s going to take to work this out.

I mean, I’m even willing to offer my services here for you to use my blog (comment section only, though, please, as this is enough pulpit for this debate between a former cofC minister and what started out to be an “alleged” elder of a “quasi-cofC elder,” but who has now been downgraded – by his own words – to a “quasi-elder” of some sort of a church, what manner it is being the subject of this debate).

After all, as JEL says, this is great entertainment, much better than TV.

I opt for Patrick as mediator, because I think this is way above MY level of being able to mediate, even though I tried to do as much of that as I could as an attorney. I mean, Greg – you have all kinds of training in dispute resolution, and yet here you are – in the midst of a great debate.

Yep. Definitely, we need Patrick.

Okay. That’s my humble opinion. You may now have your debate back. But, you ARE going to have to carry it on in newer blog posts, assuming a I ever get around to writing any, since I have to move on here.

Cheers! And, keep the debate “clean!” ha!

Dee

P. S. “Clean” meaning no more digs about Baptists. Some of my relatives now are (having graduated from some “quasi-cofCs” of the far right conservative kind), and they have VERY sensitive feelings! ha!

Thank you, Dee.

Greg – Does the website (cocoachurch.org) count?