Renaming My Blog -- With All Your Mind

Back in my first post in this blog, I stated that my blog had no specific direction, but now I believe the time has come to re-brand.

While my original intent of this blog was just to write about whatever was on my mind, I've found over the past year or so that the thoughts that I manage to write anything meaningful about are the ones that ultimately point back to Christ.

The new name "With All Your Mind" refers to part of the great commandment:

“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.” -- Matthew 22:36-40

We should be loving the Lord with all our minds.  Unfortunately, many in the church have bought into the lie that faith and reason are mutually exclusive and have become anti-intellectual. For thinkers like myself, this completely non-biblical tendency toward anti-intellectualism can be very alienating.

I'm hoping with more focus to my blog, I'll manage to write posts more regularly and I'll have a clearer definition of what my end goal is. I will review books I've read, write about topics that have come up in my leisure reading or the podcasts I listen to, and maybe even review various podcasts or lecture series I come across. On occasion I might just think of a topic out of the blue and post about it.

My hope is that those who read my blog will be encouraged to delve deeper into what they believe and learn to develop a defense for those beliefs.  I also hope that other Christian intellectuals who read my blog will realize they aren't alone and will utilize the comment sections to engage in dialog. (I also welcome opposing dialog, but I ask that all comments be kept civil.) I don't expect a large audience, but if one of my posts helps one person who is questioning their faith, then it's worth the time. 

One of my favorite authors, J. Warner Wallace, says it this way: The Church doesn't need another million-dollar apologist; we need a million one-dollar apologist. In other words, one more great thinker writing books and standing on stages isn't going to make as much impact as if a multitude of us do what little is in our power to defend our faith to our family and friends.

Anyway, I hope to have a couple of new posts up in the near future. Keep an eye out for them.

(On a weird side note, I may have come up with several new topics simply by writing this introductory post.  I kept finding myself on tangents and realizing this wasn't the post for them and that they needed their own individual posts.)