I have to start today’s post with an apology for the ads that appeared with yesterday’s post about power and abuse in the church. They were wholly inappropriate for a Christian blog and especially for that particular post. I am very sorry it happened.

Regular readers will have noticed the ads supplied by Google – and the search engine to the right – that have appeared on my blog in the past couple of weeks. Google Adsense works by scanning any page that ads are to appear on and match the ads to the content. In yesterday’s post I used the term ‘s****l abuse’ and that caused the ads to appear. While Google insist that no dodgy material must appear on any web pages signed up to their ad programme, they are obviously not too concerned about the ads that they produce. To be fair the services referred to were not as bad as the ads suggested – but still fell short of most Christians’ view of what is acceptable.

I signed up so that I could make some extra income since ads clicked on do generate some earnings. Most of the ads have been Christian based, but this time different material slipped through.

Again, please accept my apologies for this. If you have feedback to give on the issue please leave it in the comments section below.