Well I’ll Be Blogrolled!

From the beginning, I’ve tried to keep up with all the bloggers who have been kind enough to add my blog to their blogrolls. Here’s a list of places that I know about. I hope you’ll pay them a visit! And if there’s someone I’ve missed, please let me know.

• below the din
• Morality and the Good Life
• Once Upon a Time . . .
• Woodside Roots and Branches
• in christus
• Don’stuff
• Modo/Photo Blog
• Perichoretic Blue
• The Milke Way
• Reason for the Hope Within
• Triablog
• Wisdom & Folly

Honorable Mention

This page is similar to my page titled Well I’ll Be Blogrolled. It lists blogs that have links to my blog. But there’s a difference. This is a list of specific posts at other blogs where one or more of my posts is noticed, even if my blog is not listed on their blogrolls. In my view, these are cases of honorable mention, and deserve notice in their own right.

I’ve learned of many of the links below because of someone who has traveled to my blog from that page. These are, in blog-speak, “referrals.” This is my way of returning the favor. I’m sure I’ve overlooked cases, so if you have a post that mentions this blog or links to a specific post in this blog, feel free to let me know in the combox below and I’ll see about adding it to this list.

• below the din
• Morality and the Good Life
• Once Upon a Time . . .
• Woodside Roots and Branches
• in christus
• Don’stuff
• Modo/Photo Blog
• Perichoretic Blue
• Take a Break and Improve Productivity
• A Brief Response to R. Douglas Geivett’s Article: “The Epistemology of Resurrection Belief”
• Who I Want to Become and Another “Bucket Lister”
• Swapping Words
• Protecting Autonomy from the Threat of Email
• When a Philosopher Comes to Town
• Art Flier & Article
• Philosopher Finds Alexa’s Blog
• Get Thee to the Novel!
• blog kindle
• Our Conversations in August
• Want a Little Humor With Your News?
• Blue Dog Blog
• Dawson Bethrick
• Cowan Chronicles
• Is There Really a Duty to Vote? @ Mike Austin’s blog
• Heartland Morning Beat – 11/13 @ American Heartland Bar and Grill
• GoodTimePolitics
• Linkpalooza Part II: My Favorite Blogs
• From the Study
• David Baldacci’s Website
• MandM
• Cloud of Witnesses
• RebeccaLuellaMiller blog—Does God Exist? The Debate Continues
• Vox Popoli
• Christianity Today liveblog—Hitchens vs. Craig: Round Two, by Stan Guthrie
• EPS Blog—William Lane Craig vs. Christopher Hitchens, by Joe Gorra
• Good Brownie—Craig v. Hitchens
• Immediacy Is an Illustion—From Another Angle
• Deacon’s Orders
• MandM—How to Become a Famous Blogger
• doesgodexistdebate.com
• Biola University News—Does God Exist Debate Successful
• Wintery Knight Blog—Summary of the Craig vs. Hitchens Debate
• Cloud of Witnesses—More on the Craig-Hitchens Debate
• Via Media—Hitchens v. . . . a Lot of People
• John Piipo blog
• Biola Student Life
• Triablogue—Two Observations about Moral Experience
• Apologetics 315—Problems of Evil
• Open Cogitations—Religious Links
• Immediacy is an Illusion—Saying Good-bye to Hitchens
• The Unreligious Right—HOT5 Daily 4/9/2009
• WordPress Blogs of the Day—Top Posts for April 6, 2009
• WordPress Blogs of the Day—Top Posts for April 9, 2009
• Strange Herring—Lane and Hitchens Debate Existence of God
• Pure Milk—Proving God
• Walls and Gates—Serious Atheists as a Blessing
• Debunking Christianity—Report on Craig-Hitchens Debate by John W. Loftus
• Faith Interface—”Euthyphro’s Lament” Answered by Philosopher
• Open Cogitations—”Religious Links” (note: this page links to my original post about the Craig-Hitchens debate on God’s existence, but the link is attached to the word “more,” without naming the post itself)
• Thinking Matters Talk—”Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism” and the Logic of Murder
• ConversantLife—Does the Theist or Atheist Have the Burden of Proof?
• Luke Holzmann—Ethics, God, and Debate
• Kyrkans framtid
• grandconjunct
• Apologetics 315
• Worlds Without End
• ID.Plus—”A Debate of Significance”
• Attempts at Honest, linked to my post “Are Atheists Haunted by the Possibility of Being Mistaken?”
• “Roundup for Week 7” at the The Naked Listener’s Weblog (link to my post “The Perils of Multiculturalism”)

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• “What Is an Honorable Mention?”

My Idle Banjo

We’ve had family visits from out-of-state this summer, and we’ve celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. This has called for hauling out ancient video for the “entertainment” of one and all. During one of these forays into the past, my daughters were remarking about some video of me with a Christmas gift some years ago. It was a banjo—something I had long wanted to try. I can be very distinctly heard saying, “Now I’ll have to learn to play the banjo.”

I did make an attempt for several months, maybe even a year. And I enjoyed it. I made encouraging progress, up to a point, at which time I found I was simply “too busy” to keep at it. I continue to be proud of my banjo, carefully selected for me by my wife and children, if not my playing. But every time I glance at it now, or see another banjo (which isn’t often), or hear bluegrass music (which isn’t much more often), I get that guilty sensation and I half-heartedly remind myself to get back to playing (which would mean starting from the beginning).

As a result of this blog, I’ve made a number of friends in recent months. Today I learned that one of them, Carol Woodside, has a shared interest in bluegrass. I replied to a comment she left at one of my posts, then learned of her blog, Woodside Roots and Branches, where her home page makes it pretty obvious that she’s a fan of Earl Scruggs and company. (You should check out the blog and the related website.)

I can listen to Earl Scruggs, if I don’t get him in out-sized doses. I’m more of a Bela Fleck listener. But I don’t enjoy guilt, and it always mixes with the joy of listening. So I don’t listen much. All because of my idle banjo.

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Update

The Washington Pugilist, having read this post, recommended a book and a CD to get me back into the banjo groove. The book is Old and In the Way Banjo Songbook. That pretty much says it all, doesn’t it? It includes tablature for Jerry Garcia riffs. The CD is called Old and In the Way. At Amazon as of right now, this CD has 34 customer reviews, with an average of 5 stars. I’ve just added the book to my Amazon shopping cart. Thanks, my friend at The Washington Pugilist.