.Ok so what is this blog and why is it here? Well that’s the question isn’t it? Let me start with the “why” first.

• Reason 1: Because I’m a programming geek at heart and just wanted a playground to be able to write code whenever I felt the urge.
• Reason 2: To provide a place for free and open thought (see “What” below). Yeah, there’s plenty of those places already now, but I know several people who have a lot of good things to say and wanted to encourage them to share their thoughts in a more public place, not just in private conversations.
• Reason 3: I needed a new “start page” for my web browser.

OK What is it about? Well topically just about anything. It will probably be mostly faith, politics and culture though. It will definitely not be PC. It is my feeling that this prevailing idea today that everyone is “right” is ridiculous. The fact is that some ideas are right and some are wrong and others may fall somewhere in between. The key is to be respectful and humble when voicing them. I just read a great article in Christianity Today. It said the following.:

“Nobody with a beam in his eye can see things clearly. He is dangerously low on discernment. And, since we all have this distorted perspective, we need either to be very humble or else leave judging to God alone. We have a moral responsibility to judge the moral behavior of others—but only if we are humbly aware that we will sometimes be dead wrong and never totally right. We must remember that our ability to judge is limited and especially that we are sinful people who will ourselves, one day, come under judgment.”

With that understanding it is quite possible that someone may think an article posted here is “wrong” and post a comment saying so. Cool. Once again I’m going to squib some text from another blog, this time from The Ooze:

“We assume that some of our articles will directly contradict one another, and that’s okay. We want to provide a place where people can play with new ways of thinking and new ways of connecting with God. Actually, when it comes right down to it, many of these “new” ways are actually really “old” ways. We are finding that there are an abundance of resources that are rooted in the ancient traditions of the church that are overwhelmingly rich in heritage and present-day value. Many of these articles stem from Catholic and Orthodox viewpoints [ed. or Conservative, Liberal, Traditional, Emergent, etc] , and we are going out of our way to include them.”

It’s in that spirit that Rev22.org will operate.
Enjoy!

BuddyO