...are there any other discussion-board type websites on the internet (religious or otherwise) that anyone here may know of that are as well put together and as detailed as in their workings the Puritan Board?

There's an awful lot of detailed stuff to look at and work on this site, so I just wondered if there are any other sites that are as well done?

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Tom Mitchell
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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

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There are a few more but can't remember them at the moment. Hope these help.

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Tom Mitchell
Opp, AL
Member of First Presbyterian Church PCA Florala, AL

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Thanks, Tom. Anyone else?

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Richard T. Zuelch, M.Div
Ruling Elder, OPC (not currently serving)
Westminster Presbyterian Church, CA (OPC)
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With all do respect to those other board none can touch this one in quality and quantity.

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Benjamin P. Glaser
Pittsburgh, PA
Fairmount ARP Church, Sewickley, PA
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Ditto! We also have the best looking moderators.

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Bill Brown
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Grace Baptist Church
Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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I appreciate that and can only take small credit for it.

FWIW, I'm convinced that one of the reasons this board is as solid as it is owes to the insistence on being Confessional.

I have to become a tin horn dictator every now and again and send people away that want to insist on novelty but it's ironic how the depth of Biblical scholarship and dialogue flourishes in an environment where people know the boundaries.

I was on vBulletin recently and a theological board was nominated for board of the month that was a board about Jesus. I checked it out and ventured into the "What is the Gospel" section. It had a post in there that was basically one of those "Love Letters from God" things. I get enough Spam about God that turns my stomach rather than having a forum that promotes it but these broad Christian discussion boards seem to have a ton of those.

It's sort of interesting, though, because some Conservative Christians venture over here because they're weary of having to debate every given (like God's aseity or His knowledge of future events) in any dialogue but then they get here and don't like that we're puncilious about other matters they consider indifferent.

We're far from perfect here but I'm happy that Confessional integrity (in the main) has created a solid environment for discussion and it is visible confirmation that good doctrine is more than some abstract good.

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Northern VA
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The Highway has posted a lot of good articles over the past several years. Although I have joined many forums over the past four years, I don't think I ever joined that one. One reason is IIRC they changed the site and made it more difficult to navigate. Visiting the site just now I remember that the head honcho there already has the username I use here! Regardless, I need to get involved in another board like I need a hole in my head.

I can't think of any other Reformed boards that have much traffic. Here are a couple of "Reformed Baptist" ones:

http://www.reformedreader.org/forum/
http://rblist.org/

The Reformed Reader is a Calvinistic Baptist board that 3 or 4 years ago had a lot of traffic, maybe second only to the PB in terms of activity in Reformed leaning message boards at that time. Someone else who was more active there than me at the time may remember more clearly, but IIRC there was a series of events that led to that board having much less activity, including migrating to a different format, being offline for several weeks (if not considerably longer) at one point, and archives that seem to have disappeared, maybe due to bandwidth/hosting reasons. The current board only goes appears to go back to mid 2006 but there used to be a lot more archives that went back to maybe '02, '03 or earlier.

The RBDL is an email discussion list that is one of the better ones out there. Several of the more prominent RB ministers and authors post there from time to time. There is at least one PCA pastor I know of who posts occasionally as well. But note that the 1689 LBCF is the confessional standard of that list and discussion generally isn't allowed to get too far beyond that standard.

Several Yahoo groups used to be quite popular but these seem to have largely given way to the blogs and boards like this over the past few years.

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OPC member
Now attending Grace Community Baptist Church
Mandeville, LA

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