An announcement

I have new post, "And abortion makes three", on This Bible Exchange. bibleexchange.com

An announcement

I have a new post up at The Bible Exchange,  "Praying for daily bread with a full pantry". www.bibleexchange.com.

An announcement

I have a new post,  "Horror", up at The Bible Exchange, which really tells me they need higher standards.  www.bibleexchange.com 

An announcement

I have a new post,  "Something else you knew I'd write about sooner or later", at The Bible Exchange. www.bibleexchange.com

An announcement

I have a new post up at The Bible Exchange, "Christians don't need legends ".

An announcement

I have a new post up at The Bible Exchange, "You knew I'd write about evolution sometime". www.biblexchange.com

Welcome, and a little about me and the blog

If you're new here, I want to welcome you. If you're not, I want to welcome you back. I took about a month and a half off from this blog, but I'm back, which is better than the movie We're Back!, if only because it's shorter.

I'm 41 and I from Birmingham, Alabama. I have a beautiful wife and two gorgeous daughters and I'm so crazy in love with all of them it's not even funny. I also have both of my parents, two brothers and a sister, and about a thousand nieces, nephews, in-laws, and cousins. Foremost, though, I'm a Christian who tries to obey the New Testament explicitly. That means I'll offend you at some point, but it's never because I want to, or out of hatred.

The blog has settled into a schedule I try to keep. Mondays I write whatever I want. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays I post book reviews, though if I ever catch up that'll go back to just Fridays . Wednesdays are what I call New Believers' Days. I try to give a little bit of basic teaching on something I think Christians should know about. Saturdays are for catching up and working on other things, and Sundays I rest and don't try to do anything productive. And every weekday I read a chapter of the Bible and write about it. It's not a commentary, devotional, or summary; it's just what goes through my mind as I read.

If for some reason you want more, I also post something every Saturday morning on The Bible Exchange (www.bibleexchange.com) and I write humor at COBRASAURUS!!!!! (www.cobrasaurus.blogspot.com).

Oh, and in early 2013 I had a stroke and have been paralyzed from the eyeballs down since. I forgot to say something about that.

1000

This is my 1000th post on this blog. That's a milestone, no matter who you are.

God has been extremely gracious in allowing me to do this. I've tried to honor him and build up his kingdom with this blog, and hopefully I've done it. In the meantime, though, I'm tired.

I decided a while back to take a break when I reached a kilopost. So that's what I'm going to do. I'll continue to put something new up at The Bible Exchange every Saturday, and there are a few things I've been putting off that need attention, but I don't plan on updating this blog until May 2016.

An announcement

I have a new essay up at The Bible Exchange, "Belief has made me a skeptic".

An announcement

I have a new post, "100%", at The Bible Exchange (www.bibleexchange.com).

An announcement

The Bible Exchange has let me put something else up there. Here's the link.

Fundamentalism (and me) defined, sort of

I'll quote the original post:

"Is 'fundamentalist' the right word? Probably not." 

I don't know what fundies believe. I only know that outside this country, my belief in the truth of the Bible labels me -- usually by people who have never actually read it -- as a fundamentalist. 

I also know that I won't debate anyone. This is partly due to simple physical restrictions; I don't have the time or energy to respond as you no doubt deserve. Partly it's because I just haven't got any interest in arguing. We're unlikely to convince each other, so it's just argument for its own sake, which helps no one.

It better be good, after ten months.

I hope to get this blog up to three times a week. A Page a Day will come back after the first of the year, and A Chapter a Day will return between now and then. If Greg will let me, I'd like to write for COBRASAURUS!!!!!!, once I learn to type.

I finally made a New Year's resolution

I generally avoid making resolutions, mostly because that seems to be the absolute worst way of ensuring that I do whatever it is I resolve to do.  I've found it works much better for me and my perverse self-defeating streak to just say that I'm going to try and do something.

Other blogs I work on

If you're one of those poor souls who just can't get enough Chris Bloom, then I've got good news for you.  Some of you already know that I help out over at the Universal Source of All Universal Masculinity, COBRASAURUS!!!!!, but starting tomorrow there will be three more Bloom-blogs (Bloogs?) to follow.

Please like me!

Fair warning: this is just a bit of shameless promotion.

Where y'all are?

This is just a reminder that the comments are open on these posts.  Feel free to respond, reply, or regurgitate; I don't moderate the comments, but I do reserve the right to delete or pitilessly mock any abusive or inappropriate comments.  What's abusive or imappropriate?  I'll let you know when I see it.