SIDP History

How The SIDP Came To Be
Interest in humanitarian effort led through varied humanitarian opportunities that seemed to leave many important needs and issues unaddressed. Attempting to better understand how I might best contribute toward addressing these needs and issues led to a self-directed study of the human experience as portrayed by documentary, news, opinion and entertainment.

That study seems to have led to the perspective that a fundamental, unmet humanitarian need seems to be information regarding the fundamental cause of and solution for all humanitarian problems. The more information that I reviewed, the more the Bible's depiction of that fundamental cause and solution seemed to offer the most accurate and thorough depiction.

Internet discussion addressed different issues, and the SIDP perspective began to broaden, eventually flowing into the SIDP's website articles. Eventually, IRC chatroom became the primary SIDP discussion forum.

SIDP Development History

• Early, church-based Bible education
• Began self-directed and some formal sociology study: approximately 1996
• Began social issues discussion via Internet news discussion forums: early 2011
• Discussion venue changed to Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chatrooms: October, 2011
• SIDP’s first IRC chatroom launched: May, 2012
• SIDP’s current chatroom “#SIDP” launched: October, 2012
• SIDP blog launched: December, 2013
• Joined Twitter: May, 2013
• Joined LinkedIn: May, 2013
• Joined Myspace: May, 2013