{"id":3248,"date":"2014-11-24T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/?p=3248"},"modified":"2014-12-23T15:48:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T20:48:22","slug":"new-directions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/crywoof\/2014\/11\/new-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I\u2019ve been writing here at Patheos for a little over a year.  When I started, I promised myself that I\u2019d post every day, and I\u2019ve kept to that schedule; but in the meantime, other responsibilities have crept up on me.  I started assisting in my parish\u2019s RCIA program last year, and this year I\u2019m leading an increasing number of the sessions.  I\u2019ve also got new responsibilities in my Lay Dominican chapter.  And then I got started with <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/wduquette\/tcl-quill\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Quill<\/a>, which I\u2019m enjoying immensely but which also takes up a great deal of time.  Trying to do all of this all at once means that I\u2019ve got no time to rest, and no time for open-ended spiritual reading, and this is becoming a problem.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been pondering this for some time, and I\u2019ve decided for the time being to cut back my blogging just a little.  I plan to continue posting on Monday through Friday, but I\u2019m going to take Saturday and Sunday off and see how much difference that makes.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I\u2019m curious to know which kinds of posts are of the most interest to the regulars here.  Recently, I\u2019ve been posting these kinds of things on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Some kind of reflection on Christian theology or living\n<\/li><li> Book reviews\n<\/li><li> Reflections on <i>Lumen Fidei<\/i>\n<\/li><li> Commentary on Thomas Aquinas\n<\/li><li> Quotations from books I like\n<\/li><li> Music I like\n<\/li><li> Something about software\n<\/li><\/ul>\n<p>The first two categories are no-brainers.  Reflections on Christian theology and living are what the blog is supposed to be about, and I expect I\u2019ll always post book reviews; I\u2019ve been reviewing books on-line for over fifteen years.  But what about the other categories of post?  If I stopped blogging about <i>Lumen Fidei<\/i> (and, ultimately, other papal documents), or if I stopped working through Thomas\u2019 <i>Compendium Theologiae<\/i>, would anyone miss them?<\/p>\n<p>In short: if there\u2019s a particular kind of blogging that I\u2019ve been doing that you\u2019d miss if I stopped doing it, please let me know in the comments.  If, on the other hand, there\u2019s a particular kind of blogging I do that you hate and wish I would never do again, you can keep that to yourself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been writing here at Patheos for a little over a year. When I started, I promised myself that I\u2019d post every day, and I\u2019ve kept to that schedule; but in the meantime, other responsibilities have crept up on me. 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