ANNOUNCING: You—Yes You!—Might Have YOUR OWN BYLINE!

 I'd love to open up your friendly blog just a bit. 

 From the beginning of this blog (a robust…five months ago?), the idea has been that it would ultimately become a forum for these sorts of thoughts about what we're calling Stage 4 faith, not that it would uniquely be a mouthpiece for me. To date, it has uniquely been a mouthpiece for me (in the post sections at least—the comments have been all yours), but that's primarily because the thinking has been that someone has to set a tone and the parameters of the conversation.

And the blog, by the way, seems to have done pretty well in kicking off that conversation. I'm told there are about a hundred million blogs out there (you read that right) and that the gold standard is to try to get your blog in the top million. We've made it from, I'm proud to say, about the 24 million ranking in our early days four or so months back to, this week, in the 800,000s (and with a bullet, I might add).

So, if you're game, why don't you submit a post here? I'd love to start our process of opening up this conversation by having, if all goes well, a "contributor of the week" post, and then maybe we'll figure out how to proceed from there. Here's what you should be thinking. 500 words, give or take. Your goal is to try to open up a conversation about something that interests you about the kind of faith we talk about here. So, in theory, it should be possible for others to comment on whatever you write. Sadly, there are two things I can't promise, so you'll need to decide up front to have at least a minimally thick skin. (1) I can't promise, obviously, to run your submission. One never knows how many submissions will come in, for one thing, and… well, you understand. (2) I can't promise to justify to you why I didn't run your submission. Who knows? I might. But it could get beyond my time capabilities each week to enter into multiple dialogues about why certain posts aren't running.

But enough of the qualifiers: Get writing! I know that I, for one, want to know what you'd post about!

Send them to me at dave@notreligious.org. Operators (well… me) are standing by!