An Explanation of the Change

So if you're reading this, you probably haven't read the previous posts. That's fine. I began this blog primarily as a way to think through things myself, and to share concepts with those close to me. It wasn't a very good vehicle for that, mostly because I wasn't very good at updating, and I didn't have a good idea of what I wanted to write.

That's changing now.

I've read from several places recently on the idea of blogs as academic and theological discourse, as well as the idea of the blogosphere, or at least the internet, possibly replacing peer-reviewed journals for the purpose of publication, in the interest of exposing ideas to a wider audience and enabling the academic conversation to take place much faster. While I don't believe that online scholarship without a review process can replace peer-reviewing entirely, these ideas have made me rethink what I'm doing and why.

I don't intend on reporting much on the news, or my personal life – for the first, there's plenty of other places to go, and for the second, well, you're less interested in that than you believe yourself to be, really. I do intend on writing more on topics that interact with my current research, research I'd like to do, and things I encounter reading other bloggers. I may even(gasp!) add a blogroll.