What Grabs Us. What Doesn't.

Consider this the ultimate speculative post.  As I reflect on a couple years of blogging with many of you, a few things strike me in terms of what grabs interest and what doesn't, and I wonder if you see things the same way.

I've noticed that traditional, big-time areas of interest in evangelicalism draw very little interest here.  Abortion, awhile back.  Israel, more recently. 

What does draw interest?  Well, certainly it's a mixed bag.  Current controversies that could reasonably draw differing points of view go a long way.  (Thank you Professor Gates and Officer Crowley and President Obama for handing us the mother lode on that front.)  

But I wonder if...for lack of a better word...hospitality issues uniquely draw us.  When we've, for instance, talked about homosexuality, a good deal of the commenting has come from the "how can we welcome all people" side rather than the "it's immoral" side.  I'm somehow lumping our recent conversation about Ted Haggard into this as well, though I'm not sure I can convincingly make the case.  But I wonder if he's of interest on a couple of fronts.  His downfall came from a lack of hospitality (harsh anti-gay rhetoric married to actual gay sex) tinged with hypocrisy.  The "is it okay that he's coming back?" conversation touched on this in a few ways.  Is he truly kinder and gentler or still an over-empowered line-draw-er?  And then are we as a community being too inhospitable to him?  Are we too harsh?

So what do you think?  Is our community: (1) morality: meh; (2) hospitality: absolutely!