From the editor: Our Comments feature is currently broken

For at least a month, we have been experiencing technical problems with the commenting tool that enables our readers to leave comments on our articles. Some comments disappeared, others showed up on the wrong articles, and many of our new stories appeared with the long-closed comment threads of other stories. We are trying to solve the problem, but we are quickly running out of simple solutions.

For the forseeable future we are turning off comments. If we cannot solve the problems with our current tool, we will be exploring alternatives. In the meantime, however, we encourage you to join the conversation about our articles on our Facebook page—or to write to us directly (world@uua.org or “Letters,” UU World, 24 Farnsworth Street, Boston MA 02210-1409). We will publish selected comments as Letters to the Editor on our Editors’ Blog.

We regret the inconvenience and continue looking forward to hearing from you.