To become a part of The Dance-Away Zone! webring, you should be a former (ex-) member of the International Churches of Christ (ICoC, ICC) or its predecessor groups (i.e., "the Boston movement," or "the Crossroads movement"), and you must have a website of your own. If you don't have your own website and want to show support for The Dance-Away Zone!, I invite you to sign my guestbook. :-)

This is a personal webring owned by a former ICoC member and is not affiliated with any organization.

To find out a little more about how a webring works, click here.)

Again, you need not have any ICoC-related content on your website to be in this webring; the purpose of this webring is simply to identify yourself as a former ICoC member. It does people good to see through your websites that you've "moved on" since your ICoC experience - I get many, many emails from former members who are extremely happy to find out they're not the only ones who weighed the ICoC and found it wanting - to find out it wasn't "just them."

Joining this webring does not commit you in any way to being an "activist" against the ICoC. I myself am a pretty low-key person. The only thing I'd require of you as a webring member would be to place the webring banner at the bottom of the main entry page of your website.

Getting set up on the webring only requires about five minutes of your time: You fill out the webring sign-up form below - then, when you are approved, you will receive an email containing the webring banner code. This code should be cut and pasted to the index page of your website. And that's all!

I reserve the right to approve/reject sites for this webring at my discretion, and I review all sites before approving them for the webring. Let me say right out that I have become quite a liberal thinker post-ICoC. Examples of the few types of sites I would turn down are stuff like pornography, racism, Satanism, and multi-level marketing. In my experience, former ICoC members don't tend to own sites of these types, anyway. (Unfortunately, a commonly-held misconception that persons in the ICoC propagate for their own self-serving purposes is that people who leave the ICoC did so because they wanted to "return to a life of sin," like dogs returning to their vomit. I, however, I think that's SUCH an arrogant and self-righteous attitude to have, and then ICoC members wonder why people are so sharply criticizing their organization??)

Examples of things that you might be surprised to find I think are ok for the webring are stuff like Wicca sites and other neo-Pagan/earth-based religion sites; legalization of marijuana sites; and feminist sites. Goth sites are tentatively ok, depending on the content. As long as sites of these types belong to former ICoC members, they would be "kosher" for the webring.