We’ve added a few features you may want to know about. If you have any other suggestions or requests, please email us at editor@exgaywatch.com.
- Scripture references in comments and posts will now automatically be hotlinked to the referenced text at BibleGateway.com (NIV default but many available).
- The comment editor window now has formatting buttons for easy blockquotes, bold, links, etc. Just highlight the text to format and click the button.
- Comments may now be edited by the commenter for up to 5 minutes after submission. This should give you time to catch any missed errors and correct them, avoiding the need for “oops, made a mistake” posts ;). The editing time limit is short to avoid changing comments while someone is already replying to them. To edit, just hover the mouse over your comment text and click anywhere. It will take on a yellow highlight if editing is still possible.
- An annoying CSS bug which destroyed the site format when viewing in Safari has been corrected. If you don’t think the site is displaying correctly for you, email us at the address above with details.
- Minor improvements to the built-in search, better results, and highlighted search keywords.
- Added a “Share This” link at the end of each post. If you are in the habit of posting links to any of the major social networking sites, such as Digg or StumbleUpon, you can now easily do that from this link (and help us gain readership!). It may also be used to simply email a link to someone else.
- ADDED: New layout for mobile devices.
That’s it for now, though we have more in the works. We hope these help make it easier to view and participate at XGW.
Thanks!
The edit feature is a godsend 😀
NIV? Couldn’t we get a more ‘accurate’ version due to the nature of this blog?
I picked the NIV simply because it is the most common study Bible in use. I’m sure we could all argue about our own favorite versions, but that’s what the little dropdown selection box on the gateway site is for – you can take your pick 🙂
And just for the record, my favorite translation (New Century Version) isn’t even in there, so I’m not playing favorites by using the NIV.
Am I doing something wrong, or is there a problem (for the last couple weeks) with your RSS feed? When I click on the “subscribe” button in the address bar, I get a message
XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity
Location: https://feeds.feedburner.com/exgaywatch
Line Number 2, Column 3:
(this is with Firefox; using IE, the error message is phrased slightly differently). I used to get XGW on RSS, so I know this can be done (or at least it could be!)
So… Matthew 12:4, and the site has never looked right for me in MS IEv7. The Pages, Recent Comments, Blogroll and Meta all come before & on the left (or on top of) any blog entry. And then affter that comes the Search and Categories (also on the left).
I get to edit? I do, I do, I do get to edit! That’s neater than a tweety boid!!
Off topic- in his haste to demonize gay people, Stephen Bennett just insulted every adoptive parent on earth:
https://www.earnedmedia.org/sbm0530.htm
Heather Poe is Mary Cheney’s live-in lesbian lover. She may act like a parent, she may treat the baby as a parent, she may love this baby with all of her heart, but in this reality we all live in, Heather Poe is NOT the baby’s real parent. She has NO biological connection to the child whatsoever. Some man, the baby’s real Daddy, is the child’s other REAL parent.
The improvements are great. You guys rock.
To Steven Bennett: A REAL parent is the one who does the job of parenting, not just the egg or sperm donor.
Two of my graduate theology professors at Oral Roberts University were on the International Bible Society’s translation committees when the NIV translation was created it.
One was with the OT and the other was with the NT. I have the IBS NIV and the TNIV (Today’s New International Version) in hard copy and not on a computer. But, I do go to the IBS website to quote scriptures from there on the internet.
One of the reasons that the NIV and other IBS Bible versions have the word “homosexual” in them is that the major contributors of the financing of those translations were Fundamentalist and/or Conservative Evangelical Christian denominations who have homosexually is a sin as a part of their official doctrine, or they have an “Official Position Paper on Homosexuality” which is not actually a part of the official doctrine. The General Council of the Assemblies of God has the position paper which is crammed full of stereotypical language that is not even supported by the Bible’s original Hebrew and Greek Texts used for those translations.
The NIV has “sexual immorality” as the translation of porneia , which literally means the activity of female prostitutes with paying male customers. The KJV calls a “pornos” a whore monger, when that person is a male heterosexual prostitute.
I do use several Bible translations along with the OT in Hebrew and the NT in Greek. All of those Bibles are in my home office library and I refer to them very often. But, sometimes, I will use my own translation of the cited scripture because I know more about the context of the scripture than the average Bible reader does.
Great improvement on viewing EGW on my mobile device! Thanks.
. oops…how about deleting a whole mis-post? (Like this one.)
Thanks for fixing the Safari bug! It made the site completely unreadable, and after struggling through a few posts, I finally gave up. Now I can come back and read things on a regular basis like I used to.
I wanted to email you guys about this, but for the life of me, I couldn’t locate the proper email address to use. Where is it located on the site? (For future reference.)
Thanks again!
Thanks for that Boo — just when we thought Stephen Bennett must have maxed out, you can show us otherwise.
I think we’d all be well served if we perhaps invited Alan Chambers (and/or Leslie) to comment. Don’t want to jump the gun, but I imagine they may have some differing views about whether a non-biological parent can in fact be a true parent to a child.
Any encounter with the wisdom of Stephen Bennett has a remarkable ability to make me think I have something stinky stuck on my shoe. And it won’t come off.
(PS love the changes David — esp. the last-chance edit feature!)