I feel there would be nothing more appropriate as I start this blog again, with an entirely new direction, than to outline my philosophy on blogging as well as the new direction I intend to take.

If asked a month ago, I would have seen blogging as a way to rant about personal grievances or post the odd tidbit of information from random and often unreliable sources simply because of the interest I may have held in the subject. As I saw it, blogs were, by and large, in the practical sense, pretty worthless. Granted, many online are just that: worthless. In fact, I still keep a personal rant space of my own. I do, however, feel now that a blog can be quite an effective tool in arguing points of people with whom a meeting would be an impossibility (c.f. President Bush, and other politicians, as well as any number of celebrities who have begun a foray into the political realm). That is where I hope to go with this blog. I hope that it becomes a point from which I can broadcast my opinions on the social matters of today in a manner that would be deserving of true academic thought and argument.

I alluded to this briefly earlier, but as world culture storms the proverbial gates of the online realm, I cannot help but notice the importance of blogs. Look at what they do: give instantaneous feedback by an infinitum of authorial backgrounds on topics that are both regional and global. Never before has information been able to be so quickly disseminated. The internet has brought about an entirely new culture—one in which minds are free to speak and one in which those minds are more easily heard than at any point in the past. Anyone is now able to become a reporter, a philosopher, an instrument of galvanization for a specific cause. It is the freedom that such a tool as the internet allows that makes these blogs valuable. I hope to be one of these reporters, philosophers, galvanizers. Through the course in rhetoric in which I am currently enrolled, this blog will be my megaphone to the world. Afterwards, it will continue to sound loudly for as long as I give it the words to speak.

I fully intend this blog to be a source of good argument from a Christian standpoint. My Christian worldview gives me a different perspective on many issues in today’s world, and indeed, a perspective that has been largely forgotten in this age. I intend for my arguments to be sound, to be provoking, inviting of challenges. I will use my knowledge of the topics on which I speak to defend my ideas as best I am able. I intend to uphold the values of the Christian worldview even in this, the digital realm.

Brief as it may be, this treatise outlines my basic philosophy as it concerns blogs. Blogging is such a new construct that I am unable to have a matured philosophy, however as I pursue the activity, my ideas, biases, thoughts on the subject will clarify themselves.

Now that we have the formalities out of the way, the next post from me will be describing my upcoming topics of discussion, followed shortly thereafter by the discourses themselves to which I invite all who please to discuss.