Talk:Crosswalk.com
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COI edit request: add sourced history of Goshen.net and ChristianShareware.net
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I would like to propose a sourced addition to the Crosswalk.com article concerning Crosswalk.com's 1999 acquisition of Wike Associates/Goshen.net and related GOSHEN resource sites.
Disclosure: I am Robert Woeger. I have a historical connection to the GOSHEN Christian Shareware Library / ChristianShareware.net ecosystem. The proposed article text below does not mention me. I am disclosing this connection and requesting review by uninvolved editors for neutrality, sourcing, and due weight.
Reason for request: The current article is very short and does not appear to include Crosswalk.com's acquisition of Wike Associates/Goshen.net, even though this acquisition is documented in The Washington Post and Christianity Today. Additional scholarly and archival sources show that Goshen.net and ChristianShareware.net were part of the documented Christian Internet resource environment of the late 1990s.
Suggested placement: Please add the following under a new or existing "History" section.
Proposed text:
In 1999, Crosswalk.com acquired Wike Associates Inc. of Roanoke, Virginia, a Christian publishing and direct-mail company that owned Goshen.net.[1] Goshen.net had been developed by Media Management as a website and email service primarily for Christian leaders and was later incorporated into Crosswalk.com.[2] Christianity Today reported that Media Management created Goshen.net as the Internet began to grow, offering information, links, and email bulletins to Christian leaders, and that the success of Goshen.net led Crosswalk to buy Wike's business in 1999.[3]
Goshen.net was also cited in academic and reference literature on Christian Internet use. A 1999 review in Electronic Resources Review described "Bible Study Tools on GOSHEN" as a free Media Management website containing Bible dictionaries, commentaries, concordances, lexicons, an interlinear Bible, sermon helps, historical Christian texts, creeds, confessions, catechisms, church histories, and a combined search engine.[4] Michael Jerome Laney's 1998 University of Tennessee dissertation on Christian website users used the Goshen Net Directory as the sampling frame for a survey of 912 respondents who visited Christian church websites listed in the directory.[5]
GOSHEN also operated ChristianShareware.net, a Christian software and file-download site. A 1999 archived capture identified it as the "GOSHEN Christian Shareware library site", stated that it was "owned and managed by GOSHEN", directed visitors to Goshen.net, and displayed Crosswalk.com copyright and branding.[6] ChristianShareware.net was later listed in Mohamed Taher's reference book Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives, which surveyed religious and spiritual practice on the Internet.[7]
Thank you for reviewing this request. I welcome any trimming, rewording, or source evaluation by uninvolved editors.
References
- ↑ "Host Marriott Reports Profit Gain". The Washington Post. August 2, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ "Business in Brief". The Washington Post. November 20, 2000. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Kellner, Mark A. (February 19, 2001). "Is God.com Dead?". Christianity Today. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Muller, Michelle (1999). "Bible Study Tools on GOSHEN". Electronic Resources Review. 3 (8): 92–93. doi:10.1108/err.1999.3.8.92.84. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Laney, Michael Jerome (August 1998). Mediated religion: motivations for religious web site usage: an exploratory study of Christian web site users (PhD thesis). University of Tennessee. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ "Christian Shareware and Christian Freeware on GOSHEN". GOSHEN Christian Shareware Library. Archived from the original on October 5, 1999. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- ↑ Taher, Mohamed (2006). Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5257-0. Retrieved June 10, 2026.