Not sure who JMB is, but he does a good job of diagnosing another problem with mysecret.tv—specifically, the way sin is defined. Joel and I touched on this in the comments, at least in regard to homesexuality, but sin is a far broader category than the type Lifechurch.tv lists on their site. Then again, why would you talk about the sorts of sins JMB lists if you're benefitting from ignoring them? Or just benefitting from them (i.e., we don't know that we're the empire)?
By the looks of his personal website, JMB seems to be a Green party candidate for the Oklahoma state House (district 99), though judging by the blog archives he's been writing about political and social issues for a good long while before he declared candidacy.
Posted by: Leighton | August 14, 2006 at 11:19 AM
JMB is fairly well known amongst the POB (political okie bloggers)
Posted by: Dwayne "the canoe guy" | August 14, 2006 at 12:54 PM
he's a good friend of mine
james branum. fellow pedicab driver, mennonite, went to OCU law school, doing all the lawyer bar stuff right now.
Posted by: LanCE sChMitZ | August 14, 2006 at 04:53 PM
I have to agree that he did a good job anyalizing the mysecret website. My only question is...why so adament about clarifying that he wasn't dogging on Lifechurch?
I didn't think that he was but is he afraid voters would think that?
Posted by: Joe | August 16, 2006 at 02:23 PM
www.jmbzine.com
you can go there and ask him.
Posted by: lance | August 16, 2006 at 10:16 PM
Lance told me that y'all were talking about blog (btw, thanks for linking to it), so I thought I would say howdy.
Also though I wanted to respond to what Joe said.. "My only question is...why so adament about clarifying that he wasn't dogging on Lifechurch?"
The reason I want to make this clear is, that I know there are folks from LifeChurch who are reading the blog. While I think their church is pretty jacked up in many ways, I also know that those folks have likely been touched in positive ways too by the church. Like everything, Lifechurch isn't black or white, and I guess that's what I'm trying to make clear.
Also in the past, when I've talked about Lifechurch I've received emails from church members who get really upset about my remarks. Part of me thinks they need to grow a thicker skin and understand that criticism does not have to be seen as a hurtful thing (but rather as a challenge to change and grow), but I also do feel bad for them to some extent too.
Posted by: J. M. Branum | August 17, 2006 at 03:44 PM