Another Year of Blogging Ahead

January 5, 2009

2008 was the year christianlesbians.com morphed into SisterFriends-Together. Currently we’re averaging between 320-550 hits per day in additional to nearly 100 readers who are following along by email subscription.  Not bad as far as beginnings go.

For those of you who are new to SisterFriends, welcome girlfriend! If you haven’t already explored the place, peeked in the cupboards and rooted through the medicine cabinet, by all means, please do. You’ll find some basic information located across the top of the page on the navigational bar. Without question the tab that gets clicked the most is The Bible and Homosexuality that will take you to my posts on the six scripture passages most commonly abused misused to condemn homosexuality. Go ahead. Click it. You know you wanna. And then be sure to check out the posts under the categories section to your right. Gifted by Otherness, Sexual Ethics, and Coming Out have been the ones that have attracted the most readership.

Though I’ve been doing this whole internet thang for a number of years, I’m still an amateur on a slow learning curve when it comes to blogging. There are some massively successful bloggers out there busting out posts every day with readership stats in the thousands. Kudos to them! While the whispered longings of my fragile ego would love to have a ginormous following  hanging on each and every word I pounded out on my 14-inch Macbook keyboard I’m more than content to have the small but faithful following of which it would be great to have you join. I don’t know what you’ll take away from reading this blog but my desire would be you’d catch a little bit of God’s love and grace in this place and find a community of queer and queer-friendly folk to accompany you on the journey of faith with a twist of gay on the side. And fun. I hope you have fun here too because goodness knows we all can use a little nonsense now and again. Just be warned. When we have contests with prizes here, the competitive beast comes out among the regular posse. Watch your back!

I’ll be putting up a new post tomorrow but in the meantime here are my regular Weekend Links on Monday. Better late than…

• I’m not wearing mine yet but only because I have fabricstorephobia, a hideous condition that started with I was given a C+ on my eighth grade sewing project. Despite the lousy grade I was looking fine in my white and blue tie-dyed denim vest.
• As long as we’re talking fashion here’s one final shout out to give your support to Bead For Life. I’m typing to the clicking sound of a half dozen bangles around my wrist at this very moment.
• Here’s a quinessentially awesome site recommended by Existential Punk who found it at Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish, both awesome sites in their own right.
• I’ve just started following My Heart Goes Out by Carol Boltz, former wife of evangelical Christian musician and song writer Ray “Surprise! I’m gay too!” Boltz
• How could I not let you know about The Bilerico Project: Daily Experiments in LGBTQ now that they’re a 2008 Weblog finalist as the best LGBT blog?
• Check out Missiongathering where they have a rich archive of audio sermons. The next time I make a trek to San Diego, that’s where this girl will be worshipping!
• In honor of the start of my liquid fast this Wednesday, please go here, here, and here and then join with me in a moment of silence.

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