Michael Spencer has written another article of interest entitled Prepare To Be Blogged: Thoughts From The Pirate Blogosphere that is right on about the Christian blogosphere. I too have felt like I am a member of the Christian Pirate Internet and Christian Pirate Blogs.

I thought about why I originally decided to go online with the Available Light Online webpage back in April of 1997. I did it not to become famous or become the leader of the next biggest Christian megatrend. I did it because I really felt God calling me to do this and that I was very disappointed with the low amount of Christian content I was seeing and how many of the televangelists web pages were their television shows parrotted to raise money. Over the years, I have met online a very interesting group of ‘loyal readers’ as well as daily receiving e-mail that ranges from spam, comments, formalized rebukes, prophetic ‘death threats’ (I get those once a month now to where it is commonplace to me because I disagreed with their ‘televangelidol’), and subscriptions to Christian newsletters I never even heard, never signed up for, and most of the time usually never get unsubscribed from even though I request it over and over again.

I, like Spencer, have had to take a hard deep look and realize that ’someone is out there’ reading my work. Some of these people are everyday people. Some of them are Christian celebrities. Some of them are the legal teams of major Christian ministries looking for some little guy to harrass and threaten litigation upon to intimidate them to remove their content. Some of them like what I have wrote. Some have claim to find Christ. Some have claimed to found freedom from a habit, a past traumatic memory, etc. However, some have been so incensed that they have tried to either get me offline by complaining to the web page space providers, gone after ministry friends I linked to, have contacted their Christian Internet filters to block me, contacting my church asking for formal rebuke and excommunication, etc.

Spencer says something of a profound revelation when he stated in his article:

There was something wonderfully subversive and dangerous about broadcasting where you weren’t supposed to have a voice, right there alongside the real stations.

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