{"id":36,"date":"2013-11-12T20:28:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/?p=36"},"modified":"2013-11-12T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T02:28:16","slug":"the-orant-is-now-on-patheos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/billykangas\/2013\/11\/the-orant-is-now-on-patheos.html","title":{"rendered":"The Orant is now on Patheos!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Well today is a big day for me and my blog\u2026. The Orant has\u00a0officially\u00a0moved to Patheos. What this means is that soon when you try to go to\u00a0http:\/\/theorant.com<\/a>\u00a0you will magically be directed here. It also means that there might be a few\u00a0hiccups\u00a0in the archived content, and there are some more ads. Many of you have been on a journey with me for a lot of years and have landed here\u00a0surprised\u00a0to find everything different\u2026 so I thought I\u2019d take some time to explain a bit about Patheos and the move.\u00a0For those of you who are\u00a0unfamiliar\u00a0with Patheos, it is the home of a lot of blogs from a lot of faith backgrounds. It represents many of the best thinkers and writers from a number of different religions as well as a quite a few great\u00a0atheist\u00a0writers. Patheos, in my mind, is THE place to go for thoughtful conversations about faith of all kinds and I am really excited to have been invited to join the ranks of their thinkers and\u00a0writers. It\u00a0truly\u00a0is an honor.<\/p>\n

There are also probably a number of you wondering who I am, and what you can expect at\u00a0The Orant<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This blog started in 2007 as an attempt to share a bit about myself and my faith. At the time I was working as the youth director for an\u00a0ecumenical\u00a0christian organization and so the blog quickly turned into a place where I processed a lot of ideas from a lot of Christian traditions. It still maintains a strong\u00a0ecumenical\u00a0readership and\u00a0ecumenical\u00a0content\u2026 meaning that there are a lot of Christians from a diverse variety of backgrounds that regularly read and participate in our conversations here. Over the last few years I found myself increasingly attracted to the theology and spirituality of the Catholic Church, and that development can be seen in my blog. Finally, I entered the Catholic Church in Easter of 2013. This marked a big change in the blog. It moved from being a protestant blog in conversation with Catholics and Eastern Orthodox to a Catholic blog in conversation with protestants and Eastern Orthodox.<\/p>\n

I am a little nervous about entering into a setting that has a lot of Catholics. I have seen that there few very well intentioned Catholics out there who have taken it upon themselves to police the web, and sometimes do it in ways that are less than charitable. I can foresee that some\u00a0Catholics might feel the need to police me from time to time. That being said \u00a0I have a few rules that\u00a0I employ<\/strong>\u00a0loosely\u00a0<\/em>when I\u2019m writing<\/strong>\u00a0that you should be aware of:<\/p>\n

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  1. When I review the work of others I look for what is\u00a0good, beautiful\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0true<\/em> in it. I generally post my personal\u00a0take-aways<\/em>, but not all the things I might have disagreed with. I recommend books on the basis of their\u00a0quality\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0usefulness<\/em> in understanding the perspective and experience of the author much more then\u00a0<\/em>Orthodoxy<\/em> or\u00a0\u00a0doctrinal accuracy\u00a0<\/em>of the author. In other words\u00a0you should not treat my personal recommendations of books like some kind of\u00a0imprimatur.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. I am a political activist.\u00a0<\/span>I am particularly focuses on ending hunger, which I view as a global issue of the utmost importance. so\u00a0<\/span>when I look at issues of\u00a0politics and economics I see them through the\u00a0\u00a0lens of how it effects how people eat.<\/strong>\u00a0That\u2019s just my\u00a0go-to lens.<\/em>\u00a0Others might look through the lens of\u00a0end of life issues,<\/em>\u00a0or the\u00a0environment<\/em>, or\u00a0abortion<\/em>, or\u00a0education,<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0discrimination,<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0sexuality,<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0peace<\/em>.<\/em>\u00a0All of these lenses are incredibly\u00a0valuable and I am thankful for those who continually help me see things in new ways by holing up their lens to my eyes. I hope we can share our lenses with one another.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. I write theology from the perspective of a liturgical\u00a0theologian\u00a0and a bible scholar.<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0I have been trained in these fields, and feel comfortable in them. I am<\/span>\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0a canon lawyer, a moral\u00a0theologian, a patristics scholar, a\u00a0systematic theologian, or a philosopher. My writting in these areas is simply\u00a0dabbling. \u00a0I\u00a0appreciate\u00a0any and all feedback or clarification from people who are better trained then myself in any of these fields.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0I started to study theology and write about theology because I wanted to help people better encounter God and love their neighbor. So\u00a0I write with pastoral concerns in mind.<\/strong>\u00a0The most\u00a0important\u00a0question I ask about a dogma, passage of scripture, or news item is\u00a0\u201chow does this<\/em>\u00a0impact real life.\u201d\u00a0If I ever seem to drift from this, remind me. It\u2019s a rule I always want to follow, but sometimes forget.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Even though I am Catholic now, I am very thankful for all the stops along the way that brought me to the place I am at now. Because of that\u00a0I will often honor the\u00a0writers\u00a0and thinkers that have helped me fall in love with Jesus and his Church, even those I don\u2019t agree with anymore<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

    So that\u2019s a little bit about me and\u00a0The Orant.\u00a0<\/em>If you\u2019re new to the blog, or even if your an old friends say \u201cHI\u201d in the comments below.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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