Welcome back! It’s been a long dry spell here at the faithrants.com blog site, but some new and (hopefully) exciting things are on the horizon for 2012!

The first thing you may notice, in addition to the updated theme, is a new page for scheduling speaking engagements & events. As my understanding of my ministry calling has grown over the past several months, I find myself more and more called to share with people from a wide variety of backgrounds in a wide variety of venues. So, if you have an event coming up and you need a speaker or presenter on some aspect of a life in faith, I’d love to talk to you about it. See the contact info on the “Speaking & Events” page for how to get in touch with me.

The other new thing I want to try to do this year is to start sharing shorter tidbits of insight that I’ve picked up here and there in addition to the longer essays that will continue to appear here. Along with that, I’d like to invite readers to submit ideas, articles, links, etc. for inclusion here on the main blog page. Just use the contact info from the “Speaking & Events” page to send me your ideas.

Finally, a reminder that the purpose of faithrants.com is to ignite conversation. If you have a thought in response to anything that appears here, I encourage you to submit comments either here or on my Facebook page. All I ask is that we keep the conversation clean and free of personal attacks.

Thanks for tuning in and please stop by occasionally to see what’s new. I’m looking forward to some great conversations in the coming months!