Some time ago, I made the decision to blog occasionally at two additional sites – Civicus (a blog dedicated to issues broadly related to human rights and with a particular interest in Burma), and Paternal Life (a very occasional blog concerned with issues pertaining to being a dad). The decision to blog at various places was not made lightly. At the time I felt that the different foci could best be served by separating them out (much like the direction that biblical scholarship took in the last century). This would mean, I felt, that readers who were interested in the particular focus of the blog would be less likely to have to wade through copious posts that they were not particularly interested in. A downside of this decision has been that these three of my many passions – theology, human rights and fathering – have, as far as blogging goes, been kept separate, and do not share the perichoretic (probably an inappropriate word to use in this context) existence that they know in my own being. Consequently, I’m (inadvertently) sponsoring the idea that theology, human rights and parenting have little to do with each other, a notion which is of course utter baloney. The other downside, though significantly less important than those already stated, is that maintaining three blogs takes more work.
So, I’ve been wondering about merging Civicus and Paternal Life with Per Crucem ad Lucem (the blog that I pour most of my energy into and which recieves the most hits); and the point of this post is to invite some comment about how you – my readers – and those who may have journeyed down a similar track feel about this proposal. Do you have a preference? What sorts of questions ought such a decision be required to consider? Would such a merger of interests be unduly isolationist for too many readers? Your thoughts?
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You are correct, I think, that the interests of our lives are not disconnected from each other. I say blend the blogs together! Explore how the interests and themes overlap. A theologian is no less a theologian on the football field or in the stream fly fishing and definitely no less when with his or her child. Indeed, fathering shapes how a child sees their Heavenly Father.
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I agree with Russ. An integrated, holistic, balanced (well?):-), exploration of life in all its fullness and personal quirkiness. Not a theology blog – but the blog of a theologian whose life is rooted. So not a seamless garment of theological interweavings, but a patchwork quilt of the life within which and through which your best theologising is done.
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Russ and Jim, I really appreciate your thoughts, and that you bothered to post them here. As I posted on a similar comment to your own over at Civicus, it’s sometimes nice to know that I’m thinking in tandem with others.
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I’d also agree and also have experience with multiplying blogs in an attempt to keep different interests somewhat apart. I am not convinced by the I’ll save my readers from wading through stuff that doesn’t interest them argument as I think most people read blogs because of the writer, rather than exclusively because of the subject matter. Besides I have only just discovered your blog(s) and cannot afford to add three more to my lists while I am otherwise trying to cull my reading ;)
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Thanks Tim. I appreciate your thoughts, and am appreciating have 2 less blogs to care for.
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