What I learned from blogging on Ref21 in 2006

At the  end of 2006, as I look back on the year, I repent of my previous view of blogging as a trivial medium.  Here's what I learned from my various correspondents over the year: 1. Megaconferences and famous speakers are not treated idolatrously in the American evangelical world.  But if you criticise them as phenomena, expect to get your head blown off.

2. It was a serious oversight on the part of the church that the matter of homeschooling/Christian schooling was neglected in the great creeds of the church, while peripheral stuff like the Trinity and Incarnation seem to have taken up a disproportionate amoun of time.

3. While political liberals are so utterly incompetent that they are incapable of getting themselves elected to, or running, anything, they are yet so sophisticated that they have subverted the entire public education system in America and hold our benighted, uncritical kids in thrall.

4. Holocaust Denial is an error (sort of) but not a sin like saying something nice about the Clinton years or believing in global warming.

5. Except for Del-Boy Thomas and Paul Levy, the Welsh don't read the blog.

6. Mirrors on the end of sticks are crucil pieces of equipment for checking under the car before turning the ignition key.

What can I say?  I was wrong.  You can learn an awful lot from blogging.