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I want to let blog readers know that Patheos will be upgrading its website \u2013 including blogs \u2013 tomorrow, Saturday, May 17th.<\/p>\n

$\"\"$ I won\u2019t be able to post new content between 8am and 8pm. I really\u00a0<\/em>hope they have everything working again in time for me to blog about the Doctor Who season finale, \u201cThe Name of the Doctor\u201d!<\/p>\n

But either way, you should still be able to comment. And so I thought I would post something that did not merely inform you about improvements to the Patheos web site, but also solicited your input about this particular blog\u2019s content.<\/p>\n

I know this blog focuses on a wide array of topics, from Biblical scholarship to science fiction to education to the Mandaeans to any number of other things, including sometimes music.<\/p>\n

I regularly hear from people who enjoy the diversity, and from people who enjoy the Doctor Who posts but find the discussions of mythicism tedious \u2013 or the exact opposite! And so I want to take this opportunity to once again encourage you \u2013 particularly the readers who rarely or never comment \u2013 to chime in to indicate what you enjoy most and least.<\/p>\n

As long as there are people reading who are interested in all the various things I blog about, I will surely continue blogging about them, even if not everyone finds them equally interesting. Presumably skipping over a post on a topic that doesn\u2019t interest you is not an enormous hassle.<\/p>\n

But it still helps me to hear from you from time to time about what you enjoy most and least. And so please do leave a comment and let me know! If I suddenly hear from lots of people that something I\u2019ve neglected blogging about lately is what they like most, I will surely try to give it more attention more often, and soon!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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