"Announcing 'Ron's Authentic Frontier Gibberish' blog!"

A little something new to start off the new year. Over at the "Faith of the Free" message board, we've added a little blog section (you're invited to participate, by the way), and I'll be saving some of my more opinionated posts for that blog. Mostly, it will be on topics of religion and politics, but no matter what the subject, I promise to keep my gibberish very authentic, and at least a little frontierish (I prefer to think of it as "cutting edge"). Again, the "Faith of the Free" message board can be found at...

http://FaithoftheFree.informe.com

--and my personal blog there is at...

http://faithofthefree.informe.com/blogs/uufreespirit/

The message board continues to grow, but (as seems to always be the case with UU's) only a precious few actually "converse." Most of the recent new members lately (-- who do actually converse, bless their hearts --) have been from the UK (No, not that University in Kentucky...the other one, across the Atlantic.) Nice folks. Most of them (with whom I've chatted so far) are from various parts of England and the Glasgow area of Scotland. They have their own message board and online community, called National Unitarian Fellowship.

I know, some people have proclaimed the death of message boards, but I still like them. To me, they're more like "community centers," or at least ideally so. They have to be carefully moderated to watch for the "evil-doers" (spammers, trolls, etc.), but they have great flexibility and "editability." To me, there's plenty of room on the internet for as many formats of meaningful communication about Unitarian Universalism, our ideals and concerns as possible. As we say here in the "UU hinterlands," y'all come see us...pull up a chair and sit a spell!"

Ron