Guest Bloggers on the Horizon

Some­times the Holy Spirit works in very inter­est­ing ways.

I have been inspired to begin a new pro­gram here at On the Hori­zon: Guest blogging.

I was “con­victed” to offer this oppor­tu­nity to other writ­ers because of a recent expe­ri­ence with another blog­ger. I will post more about that within the next few days but this is essen­tially what hap­pened: We dis­agreed. That’s not unusual. Chris­tians dis­agree rou­tinely about core beliefs, not to men­tion faith practices.

But this is how the Holy Spirit used that cir­cum­stance to tell me that I should offer other writ­ers a plat­form here: I posted a com­ment on her blog which was very respect­ful, but hon­est. And she deleted it. Worse, she picked a cou­ple of sen­tences from my deleted com­ment — taken out of con­text — and posted only those, along with her own opin­ions and view­points. Worse still, even though she deleted my com­ment, thereby deny­ing her read­ers the oppor­tu­nity to assess my words and reach their own con­clu­sions, she judged me. Not just my actions. Not just my opin­ions. But my very sta­tus as a Christian.

And at that moment, I once again heard the Holy Spirit say­ing, “You’ve just been given yet another oppor­tu­nity to use evil to do good.”

Here are my “Guest Blog­gers on the Hori­zon” pro­gram rules:

1. Sub­mit a post on any topic of inter­est to spir­i­tual seek­ers.
2. You do not have to be a Chris­t­ian — I encour­age per­sons from all dif­fer­ent faith per­spec­tives to par­tic­i­pate. Rad­i­cal inclu­siv­ity is the stan­dard here, of course.
3. Your sub­mis­sion can be drafted specif­i­cally for inclu­sion here or be an arti­cle that you wrote and pub­lished on your own blog.
4. No pro­fan­ity.
5. No judg­ment or deri­sion of other human beings, their beliefs or opin­ions. No ad hominem attacks. I encour­age healthy, vig­or­ous debate, but it must be “Christ-like,” i.e. rea­soned and respect­ful.
6. Guest posts will be pub­lished as received, rather than on any spe­cific day of the week, although I may choose a par­tic­u­lar day if the post in ques­tion coin­cides with, for instance, a meme theme or prompt, hol­i­day or cur­rent event(s).

So if you would like to be a guest blog­ger here at “On the Hori­zon” or have ques­tions, send me an e-mail: hope­ful­spirit at com­cast dot net. Along with your arti­cle, pro­vide a brief biog­ra­phy or link to your pro­file, as well as the link to and title of your blog.

My hope is that this pro­gram will not only pro­vide my read­ers with inter­est­ing, insight­ful arti­cles, but also allow them to dis­cover other blogs that are wor­thy of their readership.

Wel­come back to On the Hori­zon! So glad you’re vis­it­ing again. Be sure to leave a com­ment and add any posts that you like to the var­i­ous social book­mark­ing sites using the links just below the posts. Thanks for stop­ping by!

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