I hope everyone had a holy and blessed Lenten season, and that both it and Easter were taken as opportunities for the growth of faith and a closer confrontation with Christ in a spirit of prayerfulness and gratitude at the scope of His most awesome gift to humanity, secured by means of His sacrifice.

For myself, Lent was good, and at times even captured the above. It ended oddly, granted, though not badly. And if at some later point I feel like it, I'll explain what I mean by that.

Anyhow, I did some thinking about how I want to be involved with GS going forward, and I think I'm principally going to focus on the CU and my role as an officer thereof. For blogging, I'm cutting back to three subjects: the Church and its truth (d'uh, obvious), evolutionary creationism (d'uh, obvious), and Ultima (which I should really cover more often, given that this is a gaming website on which I maintain a profile with an Ultima-themed name.

Most importantly, I'm going to stop looking at, acknowledging the existence of, and mentioning the CWU or its various offshoots. Of course, members of those enclaves are still welcome to comment here to the full contentment of their hearts, and I can assure the good reader that I'll still be publishing plenty of content to give said people fits of apoplexy. But I'm not going to mention them directly from here going forward.

Now, let's get that apoplexy off on a good start, eh?

"People should be properly skeptical about scientists' biases and other human failings. They should not, however, use these as excuses to deny the reality of verifiable facts." -- commentor Post-Secular at Vox Popoli

Young Earth Creationism is a soothing fantasy, but it is ultimately against the fullness of Scripture, and (moreover) is entirely anti-Christian at its philosophical core. In the grand balance, one can either choose a literal interpretation of Genesis 1 and (especially) 2-3, or one can choose the Incarnation. My own priority runs to the latter tenet, which I hold to be more important.