Gospel Prism

I was reading Justin Taylor’s blog and he had some great points on anonymous commenting. Also, here is John Piper’s comment on the blog concerning Blind Cc’ing. I have a feeling it’s a general rule because there can be exceptions that appear valid (for example blind cc’ing for purpose of a mass group of people to not see each other’s emails as one example). But the idea is intentionality and a desire to be Christlike in all you do.

Thank you, Justin, for this bold and biblical step. I hope that it has a ripple effect on courage, and accountability everywhere. My uderstanding of it is that a person’s whole name goes with every post. Is that correct. I’m not sure Mrclm sees it this way. I suspect he takes you to mean: I am not anonymous if my email is available for responding. I think we need a clarification.

While I am at it I would like to suggest to all your readers that it is contrary to a Christian vision of truth and accountability to use the Blind Copy feature provided on most email programs. There is something wrong with writing to someone and not wanting that person to know who else is getting the email. There are ways to be honest about who is getting the email and not sharing email addresses.

One last exhortation. Not only has email and blogging made cowardice and concealment easier, but the availability of everything on the web makes plagiarism incredibly easy. I hope Christians set the pace here: If you didn’t write it, don’t quote or preach it without acknowledgement.