[Cassidy]

UntoHim,

A good New Year to you and yours.

As owner of this forum you define the mission and then manage the forum accordingly. At the moment, the forum is propagandist and is managed that way as the progression of the dialogues in the Duddy book thread and its spin-offs attest to. Participants with differing views have been condemned and eventually discouraged and moderated out of the dialogue.

If your objective is to increase participation from current local church members then you will need to establish an environment where their views can be expressed freely and without antagonism. Given the history in this forum and knowing that those current member views will be different from yours, I doubt that increased participation from current local church members is something you really want. If so, you are not set up for it.

You have a forum now that is very supportive of ex-members needs. You also give voice to those with an anti-local church agenda. I think those are the two sweet spots of your forum so why not leave at that?