Quick Contact List for WP

[Kristen.NewCreation]

This is not a full list, but a start. If you participate in WP and we've missed you, please drop me a note.

Want to send someone a pm, select their name. To post to their guestbook, select Guestbook


AniGequoti - Guestbook

cavell - Guestbook not available

Celticflower - Guestbook

Cristianna - Guestbook

footprints1973 - Guestbook

GraceSeeker - Guestbook

HappyChicken - Guestbook

Kristen.NewCreation - Guestbook

Kryzoz - Guestbook

Marycita - Guestbook

MarkEvan - Guestbook

MoeSzylak - Guestbook

Morgaine1205 - Guestbook

Moriah_Conquering_Wind - Guestbook not available

ParaCristo - Guestbook

Redheadedstepchild - Guestbook

RadicallyTransformedMom - Guestbook

sinner/SAVED - Guestbook

Speculative - Guestbook

Texas Lynn - Guestbook

tPony298 - Guestbook

vle045 - Guestbook

ZOZIW - Guestbook

 

[Marycita]

oo that's handy

 

[vle045]

Your guestbook link doesn't work Kristen.

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

Hmm... someone sent it to me... I can't get my own link. Red... could you get my guestbook link and edit the OP?

 

[Redheadedstepchild]

Done! Cool idea Kristen.

 

[GraceSeeker]

You might add Cavell to the list, though he doesn't participate in much of the rest of the WP, he does make a semi-regular devotional post that I at least, and maybe others, have come to rather look forward to.

MoeSyzslak and sinner/SAVED are two others who I see active in various threads in the WP.

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

Done! Cool idea Kristen.

Thank you!

You might add Cavell to the list, though he doesn't participate in much of the rest of the WP, he does make a semi-regular devotional post that I at least, and maybe others, have come to rather look forward to.

MoeSyzslak and sinner/SAVED are two others who I see active in various threads in the WP.

Awesome. They are now added.

 

[Speculative]

I don't get it. What's this for? And how was it determined who is and isn't a "member" of WP?

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

I don't get it. What's this for? And how was it determined who is and isn't a "member" of WP?

It's just to give us a quick way to send a pm or post in the guestbook for those who are fairly active in WP.

 

[vle045]

I'd love to see stuff in my guestbook... and my PM box is always open.

And if anyone is on Myspace, I'd be glad to add you to my page!

 

[cristianna]

Thank you for doing this Kristen. It really is a great way to try to contact our WP friends who seem to have gone missing.

There are some names I think should be added such as Kryzoz, Morgaine1205, TPony and another or two that's on the tip of my tongue. Who will do updates? And can we make this a sticky?

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

It can be stickied. Any WP mod can edit it.

 

[Speculative]

It's just to give us a quick way to send a pm or post in the guestbook for those who are fairly active in WP.

Interesting, because it looks very much like a vehicle to indicate exclusion of those who are not the "right kind" of Wesleyans.

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

Interesting, because it looks very much like a vehicle to indicate exclusion of those who are not the "right kind" of Wesleyans.

That is not at all how it is meant to be, nor should it be interpreted that way.

Frequently members participating in this forum will be gone for a while and then it requires hunting for a thread to find them or hunting through the membership list to drop them a note.

This list does not require a statement of membership to WP - it's just a list of CF members who participate fairly regularly here.

 

[Redheadedstepchild]

Interesting, because it looks very much like a vehicle to indicate exclusion of those who are not the "right kind" of Wesleyans.

I'm confused and a little upset by this. I don't mean to be confrontational, but what are you basing this on? We don't exactly have a history of being exclusionary. What is the "right kind" of Wesleyan anyway? I think of this forum as place where everyone is welcome, and to me this thread is a way of continuing the sense of community that I think we enjoy here for anyone who wants to participate. Why assume ulterior motives?

 

[Speculative]

I'm confused and a little upset by this. I don't mean to be confrontational, but what are you basing this on? We don't exactly have a history of being exclusionary. What is the "right kind" of Wesleyan anyway? I think of this forum as place where everyone is welcome, and to me this thread is a way of continuing the sense of community that I think we enjoy here for anyone who wants to participate. Why assume alterior motives?

Sorry, I allowed some of the emotions I expressed in my thread about the purpose of this forum to bleed over here. I shouldn't have done that and I ask your forgiveness.

When I first saw the list, I saw that many of the names on it were not active posters at CF, much less active posters at WP. As a fairly active poster in WP, I could only guess that the reason I had been excluded was because I was not a conservative evangelical like others on the list. I noticed other posters in WP of a more liberal bent were similarly not included.

Finally, I didn't understand (and still don't) the purpose of the list. I highly doubt that WP mods are going to contact me if I don't post here for awhile, and if it's just friends contacting friends, it seems to me just as easy to add them to your buddy list, or enter their sname in the Members search box than as would be to find a sticky in Wesley's Parish.

I'm sorry. Thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting into this, I guess I just assumed ulterior motives because I didn't understand the whole concept.

 

[Redheadedstepchild]

I knew I spelled ulterior wrong. That's what I get for posting sleepy.

Thank you for explaining. I must have seen the list after you did, because I recognized everyone on it as someone who posts here. I think when putting together something like this people do get left off...just because it's hard to remember everyone.

I am still a little confused about how you got that some of us are conservative evangicals. I really don't see myself that way, and personally I have no idea where anyone else stands. I figure that's one of those things that people have to work out for themselves - and if someone else's outlook doesn't match mine that's ok. Everyone has a different path.

Would you like me to contact you when you don't post? I can do that!

 

[Speculative]

Thank you for explaining. I must have seen the list after you did, because I recognized everyone on it as someone who posts here. I think when putting together something like this people do get left off...just because it's hard to remember everyone.

I did too. I was just surprised to be left off. When someone with a health bar of 17%, and others with one less than 100% are included and I'm left out, I find it hard to believe I was innocently overlooked.

I am still a little confused about how you got that some of us are conservative evangicals. I really don't see myself that way, and personally I have no idea where anyone else stands.

I got it from reading posts here that support the conservative evangelical viewpoint. Some examples:

-one poster was upset that a Baptist on the radio criticized Methodists. I don't know which Baptist it was, but I've never heard a Baptist on the radio who WASN'T a conservative evangelical. Furthermore, any criticism that would be levied against Methodists by a conservative evangelical would be readily acknowledged and welcome by any Methodist I know IRL.

-The whole politeness facade was thrown out the window once Oprah Winfrey was mentioned, she may have been rightly criticized, but the venom I saw on that thread was more indicative of conservative evangelical judgementalism than Wesleyan compassion.

-a couple of posters really got worked up over the whole "Common Era" dating system. Only a conservative evangelical would think that was a big deal.

-I've seen advocacy for the "Contemporary Service" here, which is an invention of the modern conservative evangelical movement.

-The Wesley's Parish Book Club is studying a book by a very conservative evangelical who not only is not a Wesleyan, he's not even an Arminian. Now, I must admit, it IS a decent book, but I'd rather see Wesley's Parish feature books by people that are closer to Wesleyan or Methodist beliefs.

There are some other examples, but you get the idea.

Would you like me to contact you when you don't post? I can do that!

I welcome contact by anyone who wants to have some real conversation. The polite fellowship posts are fine for starters, but I'm really far more interested in what you think about God, life, the church and the universe, than I am in whether or not you're glad it's the weekend. So, my answer to that question depends upon what you're going to want to talk about if you contact me.

I don't see why everyone's so afraid they might get into an argument with me. I'm just an anonymous nobody on the internet. You can turn me right off anytime you want. (and I'm sure many posters here already have.)

EDIT: conversation continued in the Staff Feedback forum

 

[Redheadedstepchild]

I did too. I was just surprised to be left off. When someone with a health bar of 17%, and others with one less than 100% are included and I'm left out, I find it hard to believe I was innocently overlooked.


I got it from reading posts here that support the conservative evangelical viewpoint. Some examples:

-one poster was upset that a Baptist on the radio criticized Methodists. I don't know which Baptist it was, but I've never heard a Baptist on the radio who WASN'T a conservative evangelical. Furthermore, any criticism that would be levied against Methodists by a conservative evangelical would be readily acknowledged and welcome by any Methodist I know IRL.

I must have missed that one.

-The whole politeness facade was thrown out the window once Oprah Winfrey was mentioned, she may have been rightly criticized, but the venom I saw on that thread was more indicative of conservative evangelical judgementalism than Wesleyan compassion.

I may have to conceed this one.

-a couple of posters really got worked up over the whole "Common Era" dating system. Only* a conservative evangelical would think that was a big deal.

-I've seen advocacy for the "Contemporary Service" here, which is an invention of the modern conservative evangelical movement.

(*emphasis mine) Really? You may be right, but I think you have to be careful when you start steriotyping (I'm sure I spelled that wrong). Just an aside -I'm not sure I'd agree that we advocate contemporary services (and btw I prefer traditional liturgy).

-The Wesley's Parish Book Club is studying a book by a very conservative evangelical who not only is not a Wesleyan, he's not even an Arminian. Now, I must admit, it IS a decent book, but I'd rather see Wesley's Parish feature books by people that are closer to Wesleyan or Methodist beliefs.

OK. Sounds good to me.

There are some other examples, but you get the idea.
I welcome contact by anyone who wants to have some real conversation. The polite fellowship posts are fine for starters, but I'm really far more interested in what you think about God, life, the church and the universe, than I am in whether or not you're glad it's the weekend. So, my answer to that question depends upon what you're going to want to talk about if you contact me.

I don't see why everyone's so afraid they might get into an argument with me. I'm just an anonymous nobody on the internet. You can turn me right off anytime you want. (and I'm sure many posters here already have.)

I doubt that.

EDIT: conversation continued in the Staff Feedback forum

Thank you.

 

[Kristen.NewCreation]

Sorry, I allowed some of the emotions I expressed in my thread about the purpose of this forum to bleed over here. I shouldn't have done that and I ask your forgiveness.

When I first saw the list, I saw that many of the names on it were not active posters at CF, much less active posters at WP. As a fairly active poster in WP, I could only guess that the reason I had been excluded was because I was not a conservative evangelical like others on the list. I noticed other posters in WP of a more liberal bent were similarly not included.

Finally, I didn't understand (and still don't) the purpose of the list. I highly doubt that WP mods are going to contact me if I don't post here for awhile, and if it's just friends contacting friends, it seems to me just as easy to add them to your buddy list, or enter their sname in the Members search box than as would be to find a sticky in Wesley's Parish.

I'm sorry. Thanks for all the hard work you guys are putting into this, I guess I just assumed ulterior motives because I didn't understand the whole concept.

Thank you for speaking up about your concern. After thinking about your reaction to it, I can see where the title could lead someone to believe it could be exclusionary, which definitely isn't the point. I'm so sorry it made you feel excluded, and my apologies to anyone else who felt the same way. I've edited the title for that purpose.

BTW... the list isn't for mods... it came out of a discussion in the ASA thread a while ago about where some members were and how they were doing.