As another stick in the mud moderator I agree with the nay sayers. The moderators spend a lot of time just moderating the board with the membership as it stands; it doesn't take much imagination to figure a second tier membership would become the tail wagging the dog. Josh is right, the board has public forums that can suffice for those you cannot meet the membership requirements. If we decide we "have" to minister more broadly maybe we can institute an "ask the PuritanBoard blog" to field sufficiently vetted questions? But opening the membership, second tier or whatever, is too problematic to how PB is structured and I suspect unworkable to the strictures of PB's ownership.

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