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An Open Question To God-Bloggers

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In a comment on another blog, Mike Russell of Eternal Perspectives said something that I found very interesting.

"I notice that Catholic Blogs are now included on the Blogdom of God aggregator; it's why I'm using it less and less. Not that I don't think they have thoughtful or good posts: I'm just looking for evangelical stuff when I go there. If I want Catholic, I'll go to a Catholic aggregator."

I think that since the Blogdom of God was founded as "loose affiliation of self-declared 'God bloggers'", it should accept all Christians, regardless of denomination. I have noticed, though, that the bulk of participating blogs in BoG are run by Evangelicals. Thus, I have a question for members of BoG and God-bloggers at large.

Should the Blogdom of God be restricted to Evangelical blogs? Protestant blogs? Christian blogs? Monotheistic blogs? What limitations, if any, should be placed on membership? Why or why not? Should the name of the aggregator reflect proposed membership requirements?

My 15 Nanoseconds of Fame

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Some of you may recall that I mentioned an interview I would be taking part in. Well, it’s now available for all to listen. 🙂 On April 11, Mike Woycek of Pittsburgh Webloggers (and Grabass) interviewed me and Rob of Unspace. We talked about two prominent deaths in the news, Pope John Paul II and Terri Schiavo. I’m not thrilled with the sound of my voice and I’m not sure I’m cut out for on-the-fly apologetics, but it was a pleasant experience on the whole. Mike and Rob seem like great guys and I hope to interact more with them in the near future.

What are you still doing here? Go listen to me pontificate. 😉

Update: Rob has a superb explanation of the whole experience, from soup to nuts. Rather than reinvent the wheel and write one of my own, I’ll just suggest you read Rob’s account. His blog is worth a read anyhow. 😉 On a side note, don’t let him fool you – he can certainly hold his own in a discussion/debate. Just wait until you hear my arguments get eviscerated by him in the Terri Schiavo segment. 😉

Update: Part 2 can be found here.

Blogaversary!

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Today is my third official blogaversary. I say official because I actually started
blogging some time in November 2001, but my blogging software ate my entries. I
salvaged most of them and posted them on April
17, 2002. If you’d like to get an approximate idea idea of what my blog looked
like back (when it was called Scribbled Lines), check out this
Internet Archive snapshot.

New Feature: My Regular Reads

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I recently realized that my blogroll was getting unreasonably large. Its contents
run gamut from mere reciprocal links to my favorites. Rather than prune that list,
I decided to more prominently feature those blogs that I read on a regular basis.
If I left your blog out, please don’t be offended. I probably read it, just not
as frequently. I have hundreds of blogs in my RSS reader. The blogs listed under
“my regular reads” in the right-hand column are those which I read on
a daily or nearly-daily basis, with or without RSS.

For the lazy folks among my readers, here is the list, so you don’t have to go looking
for it elsewhere. 😉