Moving day for Shabbes Goy

Dear Reader (no, I’m not Miss Manners),

It had been my intention when I started this blog to cover a wider range of topics in support of the People and the Land so loved by God, including commentary on current news regarding Eretz Israel and the Middle East. Since that time, I’ve noticed that my focus has hardly deviated from cultural and Biblical issues. One of the great things about blogging is that you don’t have to answer to a publisher – you can write what you want; you can focus your thoughts in a narrow range, or roam the steppes and deserts and forests of ideas.

But then, if you’ve been following me at all, you saw a few days ago that I started a new category in which I began to cover the news. Since that brief time, however, I decided just to go ahead & start a separate blog for that, and I’ve already started moving my few newsy posts over to that new blog.

I hope you don’t mind.

I also hope you don’t mind if I do not direct you there from here, but I have a couple of reasons for that. First of all, in case you haven’t noticed, I’ve kept myself under a pseudonym in this blog, and I don’t plan to change that. “Nameless and faceless” is a current buzzword (buzz phrase?) in Christianity, and I approve of the principle of not only failing to call attention to our own individual identities, but to make a reasoned attempt to draw attention away from ourselves, so as to better step out of the way of the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. I do believe that light should be seen in me, but not in me as John Smith or Joe Jones. It ought to be the purpose of all believers for that light to be seen in the collective Body of Christ, each one of us a member of that body, but visible only as a member of that body.

So, I would have actually preferred a completely anonymous blog, but haven’t seen a way to accomplish that in the technology of blogging, hence the next best thing, a pseudonym. Or I’d rather call it a “nom de plume,” but that’s just a fancy way of saying the same thing, so why should I do that?

See – there I go again getting off track of what I was trying to say about posting more on news issues and less on what are considered issues of religion (though I dislike that word).

Which leads me to the second reason for not directing you, dear reader, to my new blog. I want you, if you wish, to go looking for it, because if you do, my hope is that you’ll stumble upon many of the excellent blogs which sound the trumpet call for more accuracy in the public reporting of current events, as I have found in my cruising of the web. And so also to the purpose of sending you in the direction of accurate reporting, I’m retaining most of my news oriented links. And also just so you still know where I stand in defense of the land and the people.