The Rules

Our aim is to encourage conversation within the OC/IC community, to explore issues, build friendships, and cultivate collaboration.

Sometimes dialogues can explore difficult or awkward issues; pointed examples are sometimes needed, but remember the aims of this site (explore, engage, and collaborate) and that people from outside our OC/IC community regularly visit here. Your comment may be the first real exposure they have to OC/IC ideas. We must therefore strive to represent our tradition well (this means honestly), and to faithfully practice the teachings of Christ online as well as offline. Put more bluntly – this is not a bitch-slapping circle – please go to Yahoo for that!

The “rules” are:

• There’s no rush – please, take time to consider what you have written. The thread will always be there, and if you’ve made a really interesting point four weeks after the original thread quiets down I’ll be sure to grab others and get them to read it.

• Attacking another OC/IC person, or community will be edited out of your comment. We can talk about important issues, difficult issues, without eating our own young. If  you find that you are unable to be civil, I shall gladly help you.

• Attacks on another faith or religious community has no place here and will be edited out.