Thinking Christian

For current and recent college students: In preparing this issue, First Things has been conducting ground-breaking research, and now we’re asking our readers for your insights. The Students of Faith Survey, for current students and recent graduates, will help us polish our research on the religious currents in academia today. [From Students of Faith Survey …

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This morning I turned off the function that creates automatic links from Scripture references. I’m hoping it will speed up the page load time, which has been intolerably slow sometimes. I’d appreciate it if you could let me know how your experience has been with that, and whether it improves at all now.

If you’re looking for the Thinking Christian blog, you’ve found it. Welcome! I’ve changed the look, but not the content. Please leave a note here if you experience any issues with the site I should know about. Solved: Important: Testing this today I’ve found that comments work in some browsers (Firefox for one) but not …

The comment spam issue has persisted even though I’ve done all I could do to ease the settings on it. Now I’ve activated a completely different spam filter. I hope this one will behave better. Thanks for your patience.

For some unknown reason the comments spam filter here has grown way too ambitious in the last day or so, throwing more than half a dozen good comments into the brig. I’ve looked through the settings and done what I can to calm it down. My apologies to you who have been frustrated by this. …

Just days after a commenter (Hank) said, “Thank you for making your blog nicely accessible by phone,” something went wrong with the mobile version. I got time to do some research today and I found a fix. As far as I can tell it’s working again. Please let me know, mobile users, if you’re not …

Researchers speak of the “Least Publishable Unit” of their research. I’m borrowing that concept to coin a new term for blog commenting: the “Least Mockable Unit” or LMU. Here it is, defined: “The LMU is whatever small snippet a commenter can find to mock or sneer at in a blog post or previous comment.” Carving …

I have re-enabled the Live Comment Preview function. It was turned off for a while because it was contributing to a problem in which long pages with many comments would not load properly. If you experience a problem with pages loading now, please let me know.