Comment and Copyright

COMMENTS:

I greatly enjoy hearing from humans who read articles here…but not robots. Spam blocking plugins are used so that robots don’t bug me. But on rare occasions, legitimate comments get filtered out. If that happens to you then I am sincerely sorry. Please try commenting again without any links (usually including links to other websites is what triggers the spam filter to ditch comments).

I don’t respond to comments often anymore due to full time duties as a priest. If you’d simply like to say hello or provide me some feedback on something you read, one of the best ways is to email me: fr.jeremy [and then] @orthodoxroad.com  I respond far faster to emails than I do to comments.

If you’re looking for spiritual guidance, please contact a priest near you.

Comment Procedure

1. Someone makes a comment and I am usually notified by email. It is automatically held in a queue for review and approval.
2. I’m a full time priest, father, and husband, so I’m slow to reply. Within a few weeks, I log into the website and post the comment, replying to it as necessary.
3. If a respectful disagreement is made or a good question is asked, I may take longer to post it because I want to make sure I have time to think about what you said and reply as thoroughly and thoughtfully as I can. Respectful discourse and disagreements are something that I enjoy and find to be fun. So, feel free to disagree with me. That said, I’m busy and if your comment requires hours of research on my part (such as asking me to evaluate a theological idea taught by various Church Fathers during a certain period of history), I probably won’t say much.
4. If I see a disrespectful comment, I will probably delete it.

Reasons Your Comment May Not Appear

1. I’m busy with parish ministry or traveling and haven’t logged into my website in several weeks to approve comments. Please be patient, it can take a while if I am on the road or in the midst of a busy season.
2. The comment doesn’t contribute to the conversation at hand. For example, it just says, “This is stupid” or it insults others who are commenting. Even if I agree with your position, if you’re being insulting to others, I won’t post your comment.
3. You’re trolling me or trying to pick fights with others (see #2 above).
4. You clearly didn’t read the article and/or you’re copying and pasting a rant that you leave other places on the internet.
5. Your comment contains a few links, and my spam blocker mistook it for spam. I rarely check the spam box.
6. Your comment contains information encouraging schism or links to potentially problematic websites and teachers.
7. You’ve linked to a long article or YouTube video that I’m not going to take the time read or watch. I still may post your comment but remove the hyperlink.
8. Your comment is a thinly veiled advertisement for another website.

I reserve the right to reject any comment that I do not believe will be edifying to others. That includes both people who agree or disagree with my stance on a position. Respectful disagreement helps us grow, but rude behavior does not.

COPYRIGHT

People frequently repost my content to their own websites or even in church bulletins.  I honored by people doing that with my articles as long as the final product is not sold (for example, you may copy articles to your blog/website, but you may not sell them in a publication – printed or electronic – without my written permission).

My one request is that, out of courtesy, you credit my site somewhere in the post.  Most people will simply write SOURCE at the top or bottom of the blog and make that a hyperlink to the original post. If you want to credit me further, you can insert my name Fr. Jeremy McKemy.

IMAGES

Some images were created by me; many were created by others. If I know the source, I will give it in the article. In older blog entries, especially those featuring icons, I did not always take note of where I found the original image. With many of these icons, the websites that originally had them no longer exist and my site is now the oldest one with those images. Their origin remains a mystery.

If you own the rights to an image on this website and you want it removed, please do not hesitate to contact me at fr.jeremy [and then] @orthodoxroad.com

All articles are copyrighted by Jeremy McKemy, 2011-2024.