I admit to committing, at various times on this blog, almost all of Lingamish’s seven deadly blog sins. But I don’t think I have ever posted a cute photo. Somehow I don’t do cute. When I am tempted to admire pictures of babies and kittens, I think of what the baby would be like to look after and what the kitten will grow into.
Today I could commit another deadly sin by boasting to you that my blog has just passed the 100,000 visitors milestone. Well, of course I am guilty by writing this even in a hypothetical sentence. As this figure is from WordPress blog stats it probably means counting only since last August. In fact visits have been averaging around 1,000 per day (more during the week, less at weekends) for the last three weeks, because of the revival that Todd Bentley, or discussion of him, has brought to Gentle Wisdom. Several hundred people each day have been finding this blog from searches for “Todd Bentley” and similar. I am glad that they are finding what I hope is some sense about him, and not just the ranting condemnations which are so widespread.
But somehow I have lost the heart to boast or even to post about anything significant. Am I getting bored with blogging? Perhaps. Am I getting bored with discussing and defending Todd Bentley? Certainly. While the Lakeland outpouring seems to be continuing, I haven’t heard anything new from there recently. And I haven’t even heard anything new from the critics of Todd, just more mindless rants that I have mostly stopped responding to. And since I don’t have anything new or interesting to say just at the moment, I will not try to dredge something up just to keep my regular readers happy.
But I will report one piece of good news, even though doing so is I’m sure committing another deadly sin: I’ve won a competition! I correctly guessed which was Matthew’s lie, and am expecting a small prize in recognition of it.
oh, peter–
you think your posts that get lots of hits matter.
it’s the posts that are about the tensions you feel in your life about the issues you bring up that really matter.
what are your tensions about todd bentley? what are you pushing against on this matter?
what are you tensions about the controversies in the anglican church you cite? again, what are you pushing against in these matters?
scott
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Scott, you make a good point, even if in doing so you presume something about my purposes in blogging – I’m not sure if you presume correctly or not! Indeed I blog about Anglican churches and about Todd Bentley because these are issues which have been significant in my life, in different ways. As for the specific tensions, to some extent this can be discerned from my posts, surely, but at the moment I don’t want to write more.