I admit it. I have largely lost the drive to blog. First of all, let me say that I think a person generally gets into blogging because he or she believes that the words they share are going to make a difference. Frankly, though, it’s frustrating. Not because I don’t have readers. Which my lack of recent blogging has, I’m sure, brought my readership to a dwindling halt), but because it’s hard in our country to believe that a writer can make a difference.
What I find myself becoming more and more passionate about is politics. And I hear that it’s bad policy for preacher’s to harp on politics. So I keep my mouth shut. Or at least that’s what I’ve done historically.
Not sure I’ll keep my mouth shut much longer. But I realize that some of my opinions may have a tendency to get me in trouble with some. Is it worth the risk? I don’t know. I don’t really care if I offend democrats or republicans, but I don’t want to intentially offend Christians – some of which are on boths sides of that political line.
Well, that’s enough for now. Maybe I’ll keep on blogging and write about church stuff and hit the occasional political soap box. So what do you think – would you keep reading if I harped on political issues occasionally?
Only if you don’t mind if we talk back.
There’s nothing like a rousing political discussion to get the brain going…
I have enjoyed reading your blog, especially those that make me stop and think. You do make a difference in my day. While I particularly enjoy your thoughts on matters of faith, your politics are interesting as well. It may be related to my displeasure with the the whole Republican / Democrat / chose one of the above scene.
You didn’t ask, but I miss the RSS feed on the old site. I have had to resort to a Firefox plug in called “Update Scanner” to watch your page and a few others that don’t offer RSS for changes.
Since I don’t manually check your page until it is flagged with a change, “dry periods” don’t bother me or slow me when you do make an update.
I have been missing reading your blogs. That is one of the first things I look for of a morning when I turn on my computer is reading your and Kevin’s blogs. It just helps to get my day started better. I don’t care for politics as it just gets me upset the way things are going in our country but I would probably read them anyway.
I don’t understand it, but I have been thinking more about politics recently as well, and I am having an internal debate with myself. When I find myself thinking about politics, I inevitably have the following thought. Does it really matter? How will my relationship with God change if the USA developed into a communist/socialist/fascist/whateverist country? I would love to read your thoughts and others on the topic, but in the end I would want to keep it all in the perspective of my relationship with God.