So, are you a critic?  Or are you more than a critic.  Tom Pryde wrote an excellent piece in which he explores how critics often do noone any good.  They just create a “culture of criticism”.  He challenges us to do more than just critique, but to reform and act.

As a “reforming” blogger myself, I admit it is very easy to criticize and very hard to act and reform.  It can be fun to argue and easy to ignore or even despise/belittle opponents, but very hard to build and help people.  So I needed this fresh reminder to have a Christian attitude when blogging.

Many of my readers are those who see things that need fixing in fundamentalism.  I challenge you to read Tom’s post and pick up a hammer rather than just telling all the foreman what to do.  This is a post worth marking well. 

So here is the link to Tom’s post: ”NeoFundamentalist, Remonstrans, and the Culture of Criticism“.  And to get you more excited about it, let me post Seeker’s 6 point synthesis of Tom’s post.  (You’ll want to read Seeker’s post too as it adds to Tom’s.)

1. [Don't assume] an incredulous posture.
2. Constructive criticism comes alongside, [destructive criticism] aims to alienate.
3. Being critical attracts mostly embittered, critical people.
4. Be an example and a reformer, not a critic.
5. How should we handle our critics?
6. We must have a bias for action, not for criticism.

[words in brackets above are my slight edits to Seeker's points]

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