As “Call for Papers Editor” for The Secular Web, I’d like to take this opportunity to advertise The Secular Web’s “Call for Papers” page on the site. I recently updated the page with several new requests for original articles and book reviews for The Secular Web’s “Modern Library,” which is the peer-reviewed, scholarly section of … How to Get Published on The Secular Web: Call for Papers

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I previously published an erroneous blog post regarding Catholic doctrine on people who commit suicide and whether, according to Catholic doctrine, Brittany Maynard is in Hell. I regret the error(s) in that post. I’ve decided to delete the post in its entirety.  That has the unfortunate consequence of making the comments on the post no … Correction: My Earlier Post on the Catholic Church and Brittany Maynard was Wrong

But we still haven’t been able to get Disqus working on that one page… yet. This is very weird.

It appears that while troubleshooting the fact that we were unable to view/edit comments on one page, we’ve now temporarily lost the ability to view/edit comments for all pages. Working with Patheos to troubleshoot. Please stay tuned.

If you’re interested in connecting via social media, here are the details: I am much more active on Twitter than I am on Google+. (In fact, this Google+ account is brand new. If you connected to the old one, you should disconnect from it and connect to this one instead.)

1. There were seven (7) comments submitted while I was migrating the new site to use Disqus for commenting. I had those held in a moderation queue while I tried migrating comments (so that they would not be lost)  and then I forgot about them. Tonight I tried “approving” them in the moderation queue and … Update on Comments Migration