It is a year ago today, so far as I can remember, that Cif belief went live. Thanks are due to everyone who has made it such a success. That's everyone who has been published here, all the commenters, and, especially, David Shariatmadari, for his tireless work above and below the line. I think that we have managed to produce something to be fairly proud of. There has been an extraordinary range of tone and subject across the site in the last year. We started with a Christian getting stuck into Nietzsche and ended with atheists discussing Calvin. Coming soon there will be a discussion of Rumi, the greatest mystical Muslim poet.
But there has also been a considerable contribution below the line as well. I don't know anywhere else online which so successfully negotiates the slack tightrope between anarchy and sterility. There is certainly nowhere else where heated discussions are so regularly diverted from bitterness into silliness; this is a very great improvement over flame wars.
So what have you enjoyed most, and what would you change in the next year?
