Announcement: Branching Out

My most recent post was the last of the “Focus On Grace” reprints. I’ve been mixing in a few new items while I was posting them, but decided to get them all online, and that is accomplished (I’m not writing for the newsletter anymore, Feb. 2014 was my final article). I probably won’t be able to keep up a weekly posting schedule, though I am going to try, without sweating it so much that I wind up forcing it and posting sub-par articles just to get something up. I have a number of posts in the works, some longer than others … which is another thing, I am no longer limited by the print article size, so new posts won’t be constrained by the 1000 word target I had for the newsletter. Since “Focus On Grace” was a church newsletter, those articles were necessarily religious in nature. I will still be making posts in a similar vein, but will also be making more new posts like the ones prior to the “Focus On Grace” reprints. I may also tackle some things that wouldn’t have been appropriate for a church newsletter. We’ll see, to what degree.

This is an opinion blog, and I don’t care to pretend it’s anything else. My opinion is neither more nor less important than anyone else’s, and I’m not going to pretend otherwise on that matter either. My goal is simply to poke at the equilibrium and invite people to look at things in a different way. I’ll probably accomplish that to various degrees for different people, which is all I really expect. I’m not looking for conversions to my point of view, and I absolutely welcome dissenting opinions, as long as they are in the spirit of dialog, and not pedantic declarations. I have, after all, been known to jump to false conclusions myself from time to time, and I imagine it will happen again. A terribly great many people accept things as fact that are not, simply because it’s been repeated so often to them, and they are predisposed to accept them. If you are stuck on your own viewpoint and unwilling to shift it for any reason, you probably won’t enjoy this blog. Knowing the truth is much like sanctification in the Christian life … it’s a journey of growth. But the moment we assume we are “grown,” we, in fact, stop growing. I do not want that for myself, nor for anyone else.

So, I’ll be branching out from here, including more commentary on current events, and probably throwing some things up that I find interesting, and maybe others do not. I can’t judge that very well unless I get feedback, and I hope some of you will do that. There have been some comments on Facebook to some of my posts, and that’s OK, but I would prefer people use the comment system in the blog. Facebook posts get lost so quickly, after all, and this way your comments and feedback will be linked to the actual post. So, I hope everyone enjoys the blog, and is willing to slog through the drivel; there may be a few gems in there after all.

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