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Monday, January 31, 2005

Suggestions, Anyone?

We're starting a Catholic reading group for young people. Anybody wants to suggest what we ought to read, please "make contact" per link above. Thanks in advance.

I'm going to get disciplined about blogging. Here's what's coming:

1. "Notes on the Lumen Gentium Problem."
2. Replies to Various Persons on the War in Iraq
3. Why George Bush's America Creeps Me Out
4. A hopefully-thoughtful response to some John Ankerberg pamphlets.

Now there are all sorts of things which I would rather blog on. But these have been in the back of my mind for awhile. So I sat down and asked myself, if this blog were actually worth reading, which of the topics to hand would be the most worthwhile. The above four made my list.

I'm going to take a request, if there's anyone out there who would like a long, ponderous blog on a topic, click "make contact" above and suggest it. I may blog on it. I may not blog on it. But I already thought of five post topics, and I'm done picking for awhile.

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