Liege, Belgium (photo from trekearth.com)
New Blog Rush?
No, this article has nothing to do with my music postings on satire and theology.
New Blog Rush, as in more traffic? Perhaps it will occur because of BlogRush, time will tell. The widget can be found on the right side of this blog.
Happy New Year
Many of us would like to receive more blog traffic. For some, blogging is simply a hobby and traffic may not be that important, and that is fine and understandable. For me, being a student almost completed his PhD, theological blogging is a hobby, but directly connects to my academic career. With thekingpin68, I seek to publish academic, philosophical theology, which can possibly be used in journals and books later, and with satire and theology, I wish to produce intellectual, satirical, practical, theological writing.
Blogging assists me with my writing, and has helped clarify some of my PhD dissertation, and it also can assist me to teach and to learn from others. I hope to also connect to persons in and outside of the academic world, within and outside of the Christian Church. God willing, once my PhD is completed in 2008, I will be looking for a career as a professor and theological blogging provides me with published material other than my MPhil and PhD dissertations. Theology and related apologetics are very important in my blogging work.
As noted in a previous article:
From New Testament Greek, in First Peter 3:15, the Christian is told to provide an answer to others concerning the hope he/she has in the Christian faith. The word ‘answer’ in the Greek from First Peter is apologian. The Greek New Testament (1993: 793). This is defined a plea, an answer (for self), clearing of self, defence. Strong (1986: 16). The English word ‘apologetics’ comes from the Greek root word. Hoover (1996: 68). William Barclay writes that a defence of the Christian faith must be reasonable. Barclay (1976: 230-231). What a Christian believes should be stated intelligently and intelligibly. Barclay. (1976: 230-231) The Christian needs to go through the mental and spiritual toil of reasoning out the faith, so he/she can tell others effectively. Barclay (1976: 230-231).
With PhD work, a future career and sleep apnea, I do not want too much extra work, but if BlogRush can assist in bringing in more traffic, and assisting in my theology and apologetics work, I am willing to give it a try. I am not swearing by it, as I have just started my account, but it seems to work on a networking idea that may be successful and could possibly assist my fellow bloggers and myself. BlogRush is fairly new and time will tell how good it is.
From the BlogRush website.
BlogRush is a free service that was created to help bloggers solve their #1 need:
More Readers For Their Blog.
By adding the BlogRush Widget to a blog, a blogger can get instant distribution for their latest blog post titles across a network of related blogs.
BlogRush users earn "syndication credits" (the right to have their blog post titles shown inside a widget on another related blog) based on their own traffic (loads of the widget) as well as the traffic of other users they refer to BlogRush. Users can automatically refer others to BlogRush via special links on the widget, as well as through the promotion of a special referral URL they are given.
BlogRush is a "Cooperative Syndication Network" that rewards its users for their contributions to the network -- from the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget to the referral of other users through 10 'generations' of activity and the impressions of the widget that they provide. BlogRush was designed to be incredibly viral and to provide its users with tremendous distribution leverage to receive exposure for their blog content (onto related content blogs) that they could never achieve on their own; at least without a massive advertising budget.
BlogRush is the brainchild of Internet entrepreneur, John Reese. Mr. Reese is the founder and CEO of Income.com, a soon to be launched social network and media company for entrepreneurs. BlogRush is the first Web property of the Income.com Network, a network of sites and services to help entrepreneurs and business owners succeed. Income.com is based in Orlando, Florida.
Please see my BlogRush widget on the right side of this blog, or satire and theology.
Russ
BARCLAY, WILLIAM (1976) The Letters of James and Peter, Philadelphia, The Westminster Press.
HOOVER, A.J. (1996) ‘Apologetics’, in Walter A. Elwell (ed.), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Books.
STRONG, J. (1986) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, Pickering, Ontario, Welch Publishing Company.
THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT (1993) Stuttgart, United Bible Societies.
Thankfully, genetic engineering has not as of yet produced this problem of evil.
Additional: Calendar 2008 scans
Bengough, Saskatchewan (Red Cross)
Caddy Lake, Manitoba (Red Cross)
Yukon River (Red Cross)
Abbotsford, BC (Keller Williams)
White Rock, BC (Keller Williams)
http://satireandtheology.blogspot.com/2008/01/united-kingdom-one-of-five-places-not.html
