John Brummett, a lapsed Church of Christ member himself, wades into the case of Mark Elrod, the Obama-endorsing Harding prof, who took his popular blog private recently on account of the discord his writing had begun to generate. He admires Elrod (the C of C not so much) and offers a tempered word of praise for Harding administrators. He reserves his main criticism for the binary, black/white, good/evil commenters who drove Elrod underground.

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