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Articles on this site express varying points of view, to encourage mature thinking on serious issues. The assumption is that you will want to study a controversial topic from various angles before you arrive at a conclusion, rather than simply believe what someone told you when you were impressionable! (So some stuff here is ‘hot’. Proceed at your own risk!). See the Statement of Faith for John Mark Ministries' theological stance.

Glenn McClary

By and others ⋅ March 9, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Glenn McClary Author of “The Little Book” A Brief Introduction My father was working in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at Ahwahnee, California, and the family was living in a tent when I was born on 1 January 1941. I was their first child. It was snowing and the wolves were howling. My grandmother often said […]

Do we need guidelines for Christian Usenet groups?

By and others ⋅ March 4, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

My words: they don’t want them ‘imposed from above’ So our challenge here is to invite … the key players here to *agree* on the Code of Conduct (based, as …. wisely put it, on NT principles) and have a ‘sideways in/ bottom up’ approach rather than ‘top down’… — Shalom! “[An esteemed friend – […]

Newsgroup blues

By and others ⋅ March 3, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Someone on alt.christnet.christianlife wrote in message . This entire thread is sickening. What an example we are to the world. I responded: Agreed with the second part. We are not ‘commending the good news’ very well in these sorts of ‘discussions’ (is that the right word?) However, let me encourage you all to stand back […]

alt.christnet.christianlife – a newsgroup ‘church’?

By and others ⋅ March 2, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

1st March 2004 Here is a potted all-too-brief history of a unique event on a Usenet newsgroup. Allegations have been made that a small group of people tried to ‘take over’ alt.christnet.christianlife. The allegations centred on whether this ‘takeover’ formed itself into a ‘cult’. In this process alt.christnet.christianlife newsgroup has in the last couple of […]

A.C.C. – moving on

By and others ⋅ February 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

In another post [a regular poster to ACC] wrote The Griz group are now using Christnet Christianlife and Alt. Christnet Evangelical to fellowship and try to move away from the contention that happened on Acc but some have followed them to Ace to try to provoke them and keep this war of words from dieing, […]

alt.christnet.christianlife – a bit of history

By and others ⋅ February 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Hi acc friends, I’ve been reading some of the early posts in alt.christnet.christianlife, and connected with some interesting people (again) and a few memories (violin starts playing sentimental stuff…). Near the beginning of the group’s history (and among the first of Google’s listed 413,000 acc posts) one Barry O’Grady posted an article (28th December 1993) […]

Using Google to search newsgroups

By and others ⋅ February 22, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

(From a friend on alt.christnet.christianlife): For those who may not be experienced Googlers, here is how you do it. Go to. http://www.google.com or click this link http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en click on “groups” click on “advanced groups search” now you will see several “fields” to type in what you are looking for. the two i usually use are […]

Cults – and alt.christnet.christianlife

By and others ⋅ February 20, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Dear friends I’m having a bit of fun (!) researching the only unmoderated Usenet newsgroup (alt.christnet.christianlife) accused of harbouring a ‘cult’. You might be interested in following this discussion ~~~ Research: ‘Cults’ and alt.christnet.christianlife [2] The following is a very brief overview. I would welcome any other ideas/resources. Does any of this apply to alt.christnet.christianlife? […]

Research: ‘Cults’ and the Usenet newsgroup alt.christnet.christianlife [1]

By and others ⋅ February 16, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Research: ‘Cults’ and the Usenet newsgroup alt.christnet.christianlife [1]. After posting/ministering on Usenet newsgroups for about ten years (with more than 20,700 posts by/about me there, according to Google), I’m interested in a phenomenon which I think is new: the alleged/attempted ‘takeover’ of an unmoderated newsgroup by a group of people, whom others allege are ‘cultists’. […]

An Urban Legend

By and others ⋅ February 13, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

A young man was walking through a supermarket to pick up a few things when he noticed an old lady following him around. Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on. Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him. “Pardon me,” she said, “I’m sorry if my […]

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