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amateur theology in recess
Posted on December 17, 2007 by Geoff Matheson
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With all the excitement around at the moment - both in terms of the general Chrsitmassy type seasonal stuff as well as the personal, getting-married-in-19-days stuff means that I don’t have the sort of time I’d want to dedicate to doing AT properly, so we’re just going to let it take a break for a while. Because I am getting married, and will not be blogging during the honeymoon for remarkably obvious reasons, this means that Amateur Theology will resume in February, 2008.
But in the meantime, I would really love it if we could get some more perspectives from wider than just myself. So if you have anything to contribute, could you send it to submissions@amateurtheology.org. That way we can relaunch in February with hopefully a much more communal feel.
Thanks
Geoff Matheson, Amateur Theology Adminstrator/principal blogger/editor
monologue avoidance desires (MAD)
Posted on October 30, 2007 by Geoff Matheson
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This is a friendly reminder that the reason there hasn’t been posts up here for the last few days is partly because I haven’t had anything slide across my brain, but also because nobody else has submitted anything. So, in the interests of seeing out my MAD plans: I offer the following suggestions for posts:
- Idealistic dreams. There’s a whole category for “Crazy Idealism” and it would be sad to see only my meagre post on advocacy as the best effort at the idealistic world. Have a go - there’s nothing quite as fun as having people shoot down your idealism. (Kidding!!!)
- Why I… whatever. Why I’m a Calvinist. Why I hate Calvinists. Why I wish I was an atheist. All of these make good titles for posts. And there’s a category for these too
- Book Reviews. There’ll pretty soon be a review of McLaren’s “Everything Must Change” (I’ve just got to read it first), but you can get in first and tell everyone about the last book you read.
- Whatever else you feel like. I just like having this site being about more than whatever’s on Geoff’s mind at the time.
If any of the above inspire you to contribute to Amateur Theology, just send your post in an email to submissions@amateurtheology.org . I pseudo-promise to have something up tomorrow of greater value. Until then - happy submitting.
just added: comments policy
Posted on October 22, 2007 by Geoff Matheson
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There have been a couple of comments recently that have been bordering on getting a little bit too close to personal attacks for my liking, and so as a result (and mostly because this way I don’t feel bad when I do it), I’ve added a comments policy to the site. If you can keep that in mind, that would be wonderful. Disagreement is expected and even sought after, but I’m not going to let you get away with making judgments about a person’s character because of their theological beliefs.
(note: also from the comments policy - “in the interests of keeping the comments to being discussions rather than theses, you shouldn’t need any more than 5 paragraphs to make your point. Any longer than that, and you can post it on your own blog and link to it. (linking to interesting comments is encouraged) Or even better: send it to submissions@amateurtheology.org and we’ll post it up here. ” - just another attempt at plugging the idea that it would be great to have more non-Geoff posts up here :))
look at me, look at me!
Posted on September 28, 2007 by Geoff Matheson
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Just a bit of a plug for any bloggers out there who read this and want to link to us - I’d be more than happy to add to our current (pitiful) blogroll at the bottom of the screen. Apart from anything else, I’m a self-absorbed attention seeker, so I want as many people to see Amateur Theology posts as possible; but especially to trigger more conversation (and more contributions: submissions@amateurtheology.org is the place for that!).
Let me know in the comments if you’ve linked through to here, and we’ll make sure you get added. I’m away from today (I’m posting this in the past), but Monday you should see some very happy linking going on.
feeds and submissions
Posted on September 11, 2007 by Geoff Matheson
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Couple of quick little things: reminder that if you want to keep track of the posts on here, you can do that by subscribing to http://amateurtheology.org/feed/. But if you’re really clever and keen then you’d be very wise to subscribe to all the comments (where all the really meaty stuff of the blog happens) at http://amateurtheology.org/comments/feed/. If you’re not up with why you’d be interested in “subscribing” to a “feed”, this link is a pretty good explanation of what RSS feeds are about.
The other quick thing is that I’d like to start a series on “Why I…”. The idea being that we’d get a whole bunch of people to write posts on “Why I am a …” or “Why I believe in…”. It doesn’t need to be too controversial (although it’s OK if it is :)), but it’d be good if it was more specific than “Why I believe in Jesus”, or “Why I am a Christian”. The first installment will come later today: “Why I Still Go To Church”. Any submissions can be sent to submissions@amateurtheology.org. That would be wonderful. Stay Tuned for “Why I Still Go To Church”.
(Edit: I forgot to mention - if you have posted anything in the past that you think would be worth re-publishing on AT, either a “Why I…” post or anything else, that’d be cool too.)
