Amateur Theology is coming

After a little bit of encouragement, and a little bit of over-excitement on my part, I’ve gone ahead and registered amateurtheology.org as a domain, and set up a wordpress blog. At the moment it displays a lovely “Amateur Theology is going to launch soon” page, and at this stage I’m hoping to launch with a few posts ready to go on September 2nd. Ideally they won’t just be posts that I’ve put together myself, so if you have anything you’d like to contribute, then PLEASE send an email to submissions@amateurtheology.org and we’ll look at it and almost definitely post it up on or just after launch.

I really don’t know whether or not this will fly, but if it does it’ll be good fun, and if it doesn’t it’ll be a good laugh at any rate. From the (not yet visible) site: “Guidelines for Submissions”

1. Don’t go on too long. That will be a part of the editing process. Ideally you shouldn’t need more than a few paragraphs. Sometimes a complex issue will take more than that to convey your meaning, but it’s not recommended. I really will edit.
2. Be willing to propose ideas you’re not certain about. Stimulating discussion usually means not waiting until you have the final answer for people, but instead offering the incomplete idea and allowing others to further refine thoughts.
3. Reference others. If your idea about something was triggered from another blog, link to them. If you’re not so sure about how to do that: let us know where you want to link to and we’ll handle the rest. But it’s nice to credit people when you steal their ideas.
4. Play nice. Sure, the ideas are serious, but that doesn’t allow you to be anything other than loving towards people. Respect other people’s rights to be more right than you (or perhaps even wrong). Submissions which are in any way discriminatory or defamatory will be deleted without hesitation.

I’d love to receive any submissions at all. Plus you’ll get a link to your blog on the front page: that’s got to be worth something .