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• 11.28.07
  Introducing MattCleaver.com
  Blogging, Personal (0)

  Mattopia.wordpress.com is now closed. Head on over to MattCleaver.com for my new blog. Don't worry, all my loyal fans. All the old content has been imported to the new site. And for the four of you who subscribe to the RSS feed, the new feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/mattcleaver.
  
  
• 11.27.07
  The Subversive Blogger Award
  Blogging (2)

  Check it out, I won an award. I never win awards. I'm going to have to call my mother. Jake Bouma has started a new blog meme of subversive bloggers. It's a pretty good list, so go check it out at Jake's blog. As a Subversive Blogger Award recipient I have certain duties that I must fulfill in order to retain the glory of the award, namely nominating five new subversive bloggers. My list: Cheaper than Therapy - Rick's political commentary is priceless. Inhabitatio Dei - Halden's blog pertains mostly to ecclesiology. Mark Riddle - Mark is a ...
  
  
• 11.20.07
  Posting Hiatus
  Blogging, Personal, Random (4)

  Chances are there won't be any new posts until the Monday after Thanksgiving.  I'll be busy visiting families, getting ready for our monthly Sunday night service, taking vacation, blah blah blah. If I do post, just consider it a gift.
  
  
• 09.14.07
  New Look
  Blogging, Personal, Random (0)

  Decided to change the look of the blog.  This Wordpress theme was recently released and I fell in love.  I'll probably make some minor tweaks over the next week.
  
  
• 06.01.07
  Brian McLaren is a Heretic
  Blogging, Christianity, Theology, emerging church (9)

  This is an experiment in blogging. I get nary a blip of traffic on my blog, which is fine by me. As I outlined in my first post on the blog, this is really an exercise in discipline and an opportunity to keep my writing skills intact. Additionally, it is becoming a place where I process through things like youth ministry and theology. But I was thinking the other day, "If I did want to increase my blog traffic, how could I do that?" Then I got a funny idea: I would write anti-emerging church rants. ...
  
  
• 05.16.07
  Good Company
  Blogging, Personal, Random (0)

  I was listening to the recent Youth Specialties Podcast with Tony Jones and heard a quote from Tony that is quite encouraging. According to Tony, the average article in a scholarly academic journal gets read by four people. Four. I guess my blog traffic is in "distinguished" company.
  
  
• 05.11.07
  Thinking
  Blogging, Personal (0)

  I'm trying to figure out what put me in my recent blog-funk. I haven't pinpointed anything yet. But I am getting to the point were I'm wondering if I will even attempt to ever post again and I should just shut the ol' blog down. That doesn't excite me. But neither does writing anything. Blah. I am very seriously considering starting seminary classes. But before I go through the process of applying, begging for money, etc., I'm trying to make sure I have the time and discipline to succeed in a distance-education program. So, ...
  
  
• 03.08.07
  Blah
  Blogging, Personal (0)

  ... that's how I've been feeling lately.  I've missed three days of work being sick. It feels like an amazingly hardcore sinus infection.  I'm off to the Dr. in the morning.  When I get feeling better, I'll continue posting my Neo-Youth Ministry Series.
  
  
• 01.07.07
  Spontaneous Blog-Fast Now Over
  Blogging, Books, Christianity, Personal, Youth Ministry (1)

  I decided to take a one month blog-fast beginning December 9. After I wrote my post that day, I thought it would be good to just forget about the blog for a little while. Ok, yeah, I'm just kidding. In reality I've just been really lazy and busy and haven't posted anything. But "blog-fast" sounds much better and more spiritual than "I was lazy." Anyways... some new years resolutions that I have come up with: Pray the daily office using Phyllis Tickle's The Divine Hours. I still need to get the book ordered. Read through the Bible in 2007. ...
  
  
• 12.22.06
  Man…
  Blogging, Personal (0)

  I've been slacking with the ol' blog the last couple of weeks. I'm going to try and get something up today. [Update: It's looking like I won't get a post in today. I'm about to run to church to get things ready for our Advent Labyrinth tonight. Unless that takes less time than I expect, I will continue my lazy non-posting streak with the blog. Nuts.]
  
  

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