Since I started blogging at the Christian Post in March 2009, I have written approximately 3000 articles (though most of them — since 2010 — have been here, at randalrauser.com). Now, in celebration (Or commemoration? Recognition, perhaps?) of ten years of blogging, I have decided to select ten articles, one from each of the last […]
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Congratulations to Jeff Lowder for Posting the 80,000th Comment at My Blog!
Today Jeff Lowder posted a comment at my blog. But it wasn’t just any comment. It was the 80,000th comment that has been posted at my blog (not including, of course, spam and the hundred or so comments I’ve needed to delete over the years). Wow, 80,000. That’s a lot of comments. And how fine it […]
Top 30 Atheist Blogs (according to Feedspot)
This week website Feedspot included my blog on a list of the top 30 atheist blogs and websites every atheist must follow. (I came in at number 14.) Feedspot founder Anuj Agarwal invited me to display the medal depicted to your right on my website. I have thus far demurred (with the exception of this […]
75,000 Comments (and then some)
A couple weeks ago I noticed that the tally for approved comments at my blog was approaching 75,000. I thought to myself, “Gee, we should keep on top of that and have an official celebration when a person posts the 75,000th comment. Well, you can forget about that. When I logged in this morning I […]
Review copies of Is the Atheist My Neighbor? for Bloggers
If you are a blogger interested in a review copy of Is the Atheist My Neighbor? you can email me at the contact section for my website. Send me your name, mailing address, and blog URL and I will forward the request to the publisher. If you prefer an ebook (which should be available in a […]
The Tentative Apologist Goes on Hiatus
I have decided to take a break from blogging (and podcasting) for awhile, at least for the remainder of September. Once October rolls around I will consider when to return to blogging and podcasting.
Celebrating the publication of my 1500th article with a look back…
I started blogging at Christian Post in March 2009 and I managed to last there for a year and a half until I decided to pack up shop, having growing tired of the harassment from a cadre of hostile pro-GOP, anti-Harry Potter fundamentalists. (It’s a long story.) During my time blogging for CP I wrote a few […]
40,000 comments … and counting
I moved my blog to randalrauser.com in September 2010. Yesterday the blog quietly passed a milestone: the 40,000th comment. The honor goes to Adam Hazzard who wrote the following comment dismissing some points I made: As of this morning we’re at 40,160 comments. And I’m thinking to myself: I wish comments could be monetized. (In case you’re wondering: […]
Liar, Liar, soul on fire!
My podcast interview with Peter Enns elicited some interesting responses. One of the more memorable came from one very disgruntled bloke who commented at Pete’s blog: “In he [sic] interview you claim to believe God and the Bible but your following words contradict your claims. YOU ARE A LIAR. You do NOT believe God or the […]
A new direction for the blog
After much reflection I have decided to delete two posts from this past week, “A most surprising exchange: The first atheist review of my new heaven book” and “Arguing with the ignorant”. I regret the direction the conversation took in the articles and ensuing threaded discussions. It was not edifying or illuminating and generated more heat than […]
Why I haven’t been blogging much lately
Nine days ago I wrote the introductory installment in a critique of a paper by James Sennett. My hope was to follow it up with part 2 a couple days later. Alas, that didn’t happen (but rest assured it will shortly). In fact, I haven’t done much blogging at all in August. There are two […]
What happens when you ignore unmarked papers?
“Ignore your teeth and they’ll go away.” So says a poster on the wall of my dentist’s office. Unfortuantely ungraded papers are not like teeth. Ignore a pile of unmarked research papers and they remain on the desk, unmarked. It turns out that the same truth applies to unmarked exams. So I have decided to batten […]
Updating of the Blog is *In Process*
We are switching over to Disqus for commenting. It brings a number of advantages. Ray Ingles has already logged a couple complaints including a clever comment on why top-posting is “a bad thing”. Thanks Ray! I agree one hundred percent. New comments are supposed to go at the bottom. That will be fixed. However, the […]
Blog changes
Over the months I have repeatedly fielded two complaints at the blog. (Well, there is also a third common complaint that I’m a jerk, but I can’t do much about that one.) These two complaints concern the nested comment system and the lack of a feature to edit one’s comments. Both of these will be […]
