About Jordon Cooper

Disclosure Statement

No one pays me to write this blog or to say particular things in it. That includes all forms of compensation, including offering to shovel my walk or tell me that I look like I've lost some weight. I don't run ads, no one pays me under the table, and I don't sell jordoncooper.com products off of the site. I don't invest in companies, so I've got nothing to tout except the companies and people I'm enthusiastic about. Of course this also explains why this site costs me so much and generates so little revenue.

How I make money

I make the money that I use for living by working at the Salvation Army Community Centre in Saskatoon. Occasionally I get sent a gift certificate from Amazon.com for linking to books on their site and people then go and purchase. I occasionally receive money for speaking but that doesn't amount to much.

It should be obvious but the opinions posted here are my own and not of my employer.

Technology Used

I am a paying customer of Flickr and a non paying customer of Blogger and Twitter. I pay Dreamhost every month for hosting this site although if you click on a link to Dreamhost and sign up, I get a discount off my hosting. I am an affiliate of Amazon.com and Amazon.ca which explains why I don't link to Chapters too often. I make a small amount of money this way. I never mention a book for the purpose of making money. I make less than $100 a year this way.

Other Connections

Resonate: Founding member. I'm sure that colors my judgment on some issues. You can learn more about Resonate and what it does here.

Free Methodist Church in Canada: Ministerial Candidate. It is kind of the family business since I am fourth generation Free Methodist but being a ministerial candidate seems to irritate everyone I know. My nondenominational friends think I am a sell out. My denominational friends get on my case for not taking the last little step to ordination. They key word in Free Methodist is Methodist and it does articulate much of my theological worldview.

Emergent Village Co-ordinating Group: I am not sure what I get out of this other than hate mail from the emerging church foes out there but I am a part of it and I do try to help out when I can.

Church of the Exiles: Church planter. Leadership team.

TheOoze: I help out with TheOoze and Soularize however I can in a variety of roles. TheOoze doesn't pay me anything although Soularize has generally been free.

Free books

Authors sometimes send me free copies of their books. Often, explicitly or implicitly, they are looking for a mention. If I like the book, I may indeed mention it. If the author is a friend of mine, I'm pretty likely to mention it — because that's what friends do — and I'm also much more likely to like it than some book that arrives from a PR agent. I'm probably not going to tell you that I got a free copy. Why? Because it doesn't matter and because it makes me feel like I'm boasting. Also, it reads funny.

Conferences

I go to the occasional conference and I disclose if I am paying for it, if it is a freebie, or if I am speaking. If I am being paid, I disclose that as well.

Politics and Activism

Politics is part of my past. I have been working on campaigns since I was twelve. I ran against the Premier of Saskatchewan in 1995 (Saskatoon Riversdale) as a Progressive Conservative. Since I have a lot of friends in politics, I quietly help them out, regardless of party affiliation, as long as our views are not too diametrically opposed. I am not so much hiding the fact that I support a candidate or a friend but I keep it quiet to protect them from being associated with me and this blog.

I am passionate about some issues, environmental sustainability, open access to education, civil rights, net neutrality, poverty, and other social justice issues. I often post on these topics and leave room for disagreement but I rarely get into heated debates on my blog about these positions - I don't think that it's the appropriate place to do so.

My promise

Inevitably, I use my judgment. I do this out of fairness and because the bulk of my blog is dedicated to my opinions, not the opinions of organizations that hire me.

All I can promise is that I will be honest with you and never write something I don't believe in because someone is paying me as part of a relationship you don't know about.

If you don't like this or disagree, let me know.

Jordon Cooper
Most recent update: February 10, 2008

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