Welcome to the new Christogenea Archive

William Finck

Back in 2014, when William Finck created a new version of his main website, Christogenea.org, employing Drupal 7, he left behind several years of older content, which mainly consisted of most of the several hundred podcasts he had done with Eli James from December, 2008 through January, 2011.

Wanting to preserve the record of these podcasts, the old site was moved to this archive subdomain, where it sat with the old Drupal 6 software until now. But after so many years, Drupal 6 has become quite tedious to support, requiring the maintenance of a lot of old technology on an old server, so now we have moved all of the old content to this new website. This new website is based on the same new technology that is found at what we fondly call Christogenea 3.0 at the main site and other Christogenea projects, and while nothing is timeless, we hope that this will be more durable. 

The Anatomy of my Split with Eli James

William Finck

From my own viewpoint, of course, this is a record of the events which have led to my current and seemingly permanent rift with Eli James.

In October and November of 2010, I had a rift with the editors of the New Ensign Magazine project that I was involved in over whether certain Nord Davis articles should appear there. The Nord Davis articles virtually celebrated arab peoples, and the idea of a “noble beast”, an idea which to me is dangerously close to Rousseau's bolshevik “noble savage” theory. For that reason I was forced to abandon the project, and began the Saxon Messenger to replace it. I respect the people involved in this dispute dearly, and so far as I am aware we are still on speaking terms.

During that rift, the people on the project that I was dealing with had appealed to Eli James, as if he could persuade me on this argument. However, while I have worked with Eli on the Talkshoe Radio programs, all of my website and writing endeavors are independent entities, and so long as I am persuaded that I am being true to the Gospel, I will not let them be influenced by the diverse opinions of others. 

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