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As I wrote recently, I\u2019ve been a bit down recently<\/a>. Part of the consequence of that is that I just can\u2019t keep up with all of the inputs in my life. I can\u2019t both read and write<\/a>, for instance. Another consequence is that big blogging memes have passed me by.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit, it\u2019s hard to see Rachel and Scot and Fred weigh in on Ross Douthat\u2019s ignorance about liberal Christianity, John Piper\u2019s latest idiocy, and the recent offense by a \u201ccomplementarian.\u201d Hard because they get big traffic and tons of comments. These topics are red meat for you, dear readers. And they are for me, too.<\/p>\n

But I cannot always keep up. I cannot always weigh in on the breaking news in the theological world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t want to be a bloggy ambulance chaser, taking every chance to drop the names Piper, Driscoll, and Bell, even though when I do my traffic spikes.*<\/p>\n

So I\u2019m going to keep at it. I\u2019m not going to beat myself up when I miss a meme. I\u2019m going to keep blogging every day \u2014 sometimes about Piper, but more often about God and prayer and theology.<\/p>\n

And, while I\u2019m on the topic, I\u2019d love your ideas on themes you\u2019d like to see explored here.<\/p>\n

*Hear me well: I\u2019m not accusing Rachel, Scot, and Fred of being ambulance chasers. In fact, I think the three of them are anything but. I actually think each of them is a better person than I, and I\u2019m guessing that they don\u2019t struggle with the temptation to blog about Piper, Driscoll just for the pageviews.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"