Post-Lenten Blogging Plans

Well, Lent is now over and my blog-every-day-but-Sunday Lenten resolution has now expired.

I think I more or less made it, with the possible exception of one or two posts (I haven't done an exact count). 

So what now? Do I plan on stopping to blog, or to blog only on rare occasions?

Not in the slightest!

For a start, I haven't finished my Theological Connections series (that got delayed, in significant measure, due to the time sink that the current priestly sex scandal has created–wow has that required a lot of research!).

But even beyond that, I want to keep blogging at an increased rate, and so the current plan is to blog every weekday, or at least the great majority of weekdays. 

I may miss days here and there, but then there also can be days with multiple posts (like today, which has two).

I've been getting requests via e-mail for more sci-fi blogging (as well as fiction blogging in general), so I'm going to be doing some of that (as well as finishing Theological Connections, considering various moral and canonical problems, and doing lead-ins to my Register posts, which I hope to make value-added when I can).

In particular, I plan to do my long-promised review of the finale of Battlestar Galactica (the final three hours of which I have just re-watched to refresh my memory), as well as telling you about the sci-fi series I am currently watching.

Enjoy!

Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

11 thoughts on “Post-Lenten Blogging Plans”

  2. The teaser in the last Theological Connections — “What even God doesn’t know” — has me checking for updates with iPad-like anticipation.
    Can’t wait!

  3. Can’t wait to see your Battlestar Galactica finale review. My wife and I borrowed the DVDs from a friend last year and watched the entire series over the course of a few months. I really enjoyed the series but felt it came to an unsatisfying and disappointing ending. Perhaps most unsatisfying to me was everyone seeming to either die or go their separate ways to live alone.
    On a separate note, we recently finished an anime series called Blood+ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood%2B) that I really enjoyed, despite having to read subtitles, and a few brief blood-sucking scenes. I don’t think I’d really call it a vampire movie though and that word itself is never used throughout the series; some great theme music by Hans Zimmer as well ( http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/mv/mancina/blood_14.mp3 , http://www.hans-zimmer.com/fr/mv/mancina/blood_14.mp3 ).

  4. I especially look forward to some new fiction blogging. I first discovered you when Mary Catelli sent me a link to one of your posts on writing fiction. I believe it was ‘How to Kill a Major Character’.
    Thank you, sir, and God bless!

  5. I’ve only watched one episode of BSG – the last one. In a sense, that was all I really needed to watch. Actually, that’s not accurate. I have been reading about BSG on this blog, so I guess that’s sort like watching the series in my imagination.
    In any case, I think I know the answer to the question of what it is that even God doesn’t know. I’ll see if my answer matches up with Jimmy’s. Sorry I wasn’t around when the series started.
    There is a unique connection between God’s infinite contingent knowledge of possible worlds and Leibnitz’s idea that this is the best of all possible worlds. Since God is all good, then of all the infinite contingencies, this must be the one that best reflects his goodness, not only in possibility, but actuality. The reason for this is related by a similar proof used by Anselm in his second ontological proof of God’s existence: for God to only possibly exist instead of actually existing, he would be less than perfect, since actuality is a higher perfection than mere possibility. God, if he is to be God, must have the highest perfection (by hypothesis). So, if God exists, his existence must be not merely possible, it must be necessary. In the same way, if this is the best of all possible worlds, than it must be the necessary world, since, otherwise, it would not be the best of all possible worlds.
    In any case, looking forward to the posts.
    The Chicken

  7. Very glad to hear that the increased amount of blog activity will continue. I hope I’m not too importunate, but what happened to the Petrine Fact?

  8. Pachy: Steve tells me that he hopes to continue the Petrine Fact some time after I finish Theological Connections. Also, we’re working on the kind of header bar for Theological Connections that you asked about.

  9. Thanks. Now let’s see how long I can go without making another complaint…

  11. Well good luck on your plans. I look forward to that Theological Connections. Seems like a good read since I too am interested about the priestly scandals. (Not to mention my blood pressure rises when i’m reading them.)

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