I have been a Twelve Tribes member for 25 years. I am a wife and mother, employing many gifts and skills and learning others, as I continue in this life.
I noticed that the Voices section of The Commons was created as a forum for biased expressions of opinion rather than news. While it may be interesting to the readers, as if we could keep these issues in the realm of a slightly distant debate (just the beginning of a “salvo” was editor Jeff Potter's term), the essay Clara Rose Thornton wrote was highly personal. So I decided to write a personal response to Ms. Thornton's opinion about her experience at the Basin Farm.
First of all, we insist that the editor remove the references to a Web site that is not our Web site at all. We of the Twelve Tribes did not publish the material from that teaching Web site,” whether quoted in Ms. Thornton's article or the reference put in an adjacent box by the editor of The Commons. Our Web site is www.twelvetribes.com, which contains our published writings about many topics.
Before publishing in a newspaper, the editor is responsible to make sure that all sources are verifiable and reputable. A keystone in Ms. Thornton's article is a reference to a Web site that has no author and no contact information, and that has a deliberately concealed identity in its domain record. We insist that this reference be removed.
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