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(Third question for John Hobbins<\/a>) If you knew back in 2005 what you know now, would you have begun blogging? What are the most positive and negative aspects of your own experience of blogging as a Christian, a pastor and an academic?<\/p>\n

ANSWER<\/strong>: Actually, I\u2019ve only been blogging regularly for 12 or 13 months now. Before that, no one read my blog, and I rarely posted. The good \u2018ol days.<\/p>\n

What I like about blogging is that it is a lot like real life. The friendship and the camaraderie. The BS-ing. Pictures of Marilyn Monroe reading James Joyce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I don\u2019t like about blogging is that it is a lot like real life. It gets old sometimes. People online are like people everywhere:<\/p>\n

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody\u2019s looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But I can live with that. If I couldn\u2019t, blogging would not be for me.<\/p>\n

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