You are definitely not wasting your time, and in the short time I have been reading this blog, I have learned a lot. This is a place for kindred spirits, and I will forward the link to all in my address book.

Again, thank you.

As an aside, allow me to point you to another web site that you might find helpful. I maintain the web site for our church at http://www.jamesknox.com . It is a Bible-believing independent Baptist church. Our pastor focuses on Bible study and has written a number of books on it.

By the way, at our annual Bible Conference last year, we had a man travel here from Australia to attend. That is clearly the record for distance traveled to attend.

Again, welcome sir! Please don’t feel like you need to post comments, but on the other hand, never hesitate to do so if you have something to add. The important thing is that you are here are reading it – and you are there and practicing it.

Take care and God Bless you, brother!

But I love Jesus and I am so grateful for cultures that preserve the old values, the American sitz em leben, so to speak, before it co-opted by special interests, and the atheistic, radical left. There are not many voices that reflect that viewpoint out there, so I will read those that do – even if I am not specifically the target audience. I find a commonality in faith that is much deeper than culture.

But as a niche blog, I don’t feel that I have a right to a voice before others. Especially since all my posts would have to begin “Speaking as a foreigner, non-southerner, my view from the outside is…” Perhaps it’s just the modern culture’s need to preface every statement with “Some of my best friends are (women/black/latino/gay), but …” that makes me feel i need to do it, but how much can an Australian Yankee really contribute to a southern culture blog?

To paraphrase Descartes, I ‘G’day, mate!’, therefore I lurk.

I am satisfied with the current format and am not looking at making any changes to it. The forum was nice, but the blog format is better suited to what we’re doing here. The only thing I would want to change is to get more writers so that we could get more articles posted. That will come, but never as quickly as I would like it to. One problem is that we are filling a very small niche, and finding other writers whose views match the Confederate Colonel project is not an easy task. There are plenty of Southern writers out there, but I won’t sacrifice the goals in order to increase the quantity of articles. I’m always open to suggestions.

Also, you must remember that a blog by nature is a less favorable medium for two way discussion. It’s a discussion board where only you can start new topics. A lot of your old site visitors probably drifted away when the format changed. New visitors will be attracted and stay solely based on the articles, which means they need to see something that’s new information, or thought provoking views on old information.