I've noticed blogging here has dropped off significantly since the General Synod decision to end the Church Herald. Like everyone else I am curious to see how and when this "orderly cessation" takes place. In the meantime, it casts a bit of a pall over the these blogs. I have had several thoughts I considered blogging about, but given the future of the Church Herald, it felt somehow inappropriate, like I would be dancing on a fresh grave.
Right before General Synod, I was contacted by Terry DeYoung, managing editor of the Church Herald, to offer my take and evaluation on these blogs. I never got around to responding to Terry, but if I had I would have said that I felt like it was really just beginning to take off. that we were seeing some glimpses of what these blogs could be and do. I found the discussions of the Belhar Confession an especially helpful example of the potential of these blogs. So I am sad to see the Church Herald go, and I am also sad that presumably these blogs will disappear with it.