Posted by Dave on 10/23/06 at 03:32:16 pm
Categories: Daily Scribe

[read update at bottom]

Well that did not last long.

The Daily Scribe has come to an end.

Well, not quite. It was actually abruptly cut-off by the creator of the site - Shawn Anthony. If you are curious as to the reasons, you can view them here. But if you want to know what really went down, read what Colleen has to say.

Hopefully something else will rise up out of this.

The Daily Scribe was an interesting place with tremendous diversity of voices. Some did not like that. The diversity of voices also created tension between the some of the voices. Certain members of the Scribe did not feel that they could be sincere in their beliefs and be part of a collective of writers who may have contrasting beliefs.

This issue did not bother me. I was able to learn from my Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, Buddhist, and Humanist friends. I did not need to agree with everything that they said in order to be part of a community with them. Others were unable to see past this.

The Daily Scribe was a place of religion. It was a place that encouraged diversity and differences. It was a place that filled with brilliant writers and thinkers that I continually learned from. It is sad to me that there are still huge walls up that make any dialog extremely difficult.

I will keep reading these blogs. And The Daily Scribe will possibly be back, just in a new form.

UPDATE: For other thoughts, check out some of these. I will try to continue updating this:

• pomomusings - "The Daily Scribe: DELETED" (to be said in Strongbad's Voice)
• gathering in light - The Daily Scribe Project Has Ended
• Making Chutney - By your fruits we know you
• way out west - Dead Scribe
• way out west - Dead Scribe 2

I will be honest. It is difficult to not "attack" the way that Shawn has handled that. I have liked my limited interactions that I have had with Shawn. But I am extremely disappointed at how this has been handled.

Lets hope that we can all move on from this soon...

0/24: It looks like the Scibe is back up...you can read more here from Shawn. I still don't really get the whole thing. Now it looks like he did it as an experiment to piss people off to see who his "true friends" were. I don't know...

Like I said, I have like my interactions with Shawn. And I most definitely understand the need to follow your convictions, and that is not always an easy thing to do. I hope that all of us can learn from this and we can move on in a positive direction from here. I wish him the best, and I hope that he is able to feel at home with the BIC in his new-found Christian convictions.

But I am glad that The Daily Scribe is back.

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