I am a fan and follow various Social Media Channels where Red Letter Christians publishes.  That is why I feel the same sense of “say it ain’t so” when I see reactions like the taking down of a re-published blog post by @MicahBales which posed a very astute and apparently widely felt theological reaction/pushback to @PeterRollins.   The worst part of this is that the comments that must have collected under that post would likely be coming from two very astute and worthy theological sides of that conversation (and I always hesitate to talk of “both” and “sides”  since it is really a matter of a multitude of theological conversations surrounding the issues of “absence of God” and the position one inhabits visa vi their experience of life and God and justice and sense of God’s presence and call.

I want to call on RLC to restore that post (even though we can still read it on Micah’s origination point for that post on his blog ),  mainly for the sake of what comments may have ensued from that RLC location,  to which doubtless many folk have been linked only to find the disturbing “This post has been removed”.   Hopefully it and the corresponding comments have remained intact in the archives or non-public data for RLC.  Now that the “cat is out  of the bag”,  and always hasbeen,  thanks to the immediacy of social media,  the effort to downplay disagreements is increasingly futile.   Reconsider, RLC folks.  You’re better than that.