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September 19th, 2010

Christian Carnival at Beyond Belief

by Rodney Olsen

christian_carnival_lion.jpgWould you like the opportunity to have your blog promoted? Have you published a post that you’d like read by a wider audience?

I’m having some friends drop in this week. They’ll be visiting from all over the world and you’re invited to join us. The next Christian Carnival is being hosted here at Beyond Belief.

The weekly Christian Carnival is an opportunity for Christian blog writers to share their best posts from the previous week. The topic of the post doesn’t necessarily have to focus on Christianity but it must reflect a Christian worldview, and the writer must be Christian to qualify. You may wish to consider that the readership of the Christian Carnival will be more varied than your usual readership, and you might do better contributing a post with broad appeal.

I’ve already received a number of contributions and I’m looking forward to offering readers of this blog some great links when the carnival is published.

If you’re a Christian and you’ve never contributed before, or if it’s been a while since you have, how about having a look through your posts for this week and choosing something to contribute. It doesn’t have to be a masterpiece, just a post that outlines your point of view or is designed to get others thinking. Being part of the carnival could be a great way to gain a little extra traffic at your blog.

The easiest way to get involved is to submit your article through the Blog Carnival Submission Form. Otherwise, you can email the submission address.

The deadline for submissions is Tuesday evening at midnight, Eastern (US) Standard Time. That means it’s midday Wednesday here in Perth, Western Australia.

September 1st, 2010

Welcome to Beyond Belief

by Rodney Olsen

Welcome to Beyond Belief, the faith blog of Rodney Olsen.

What we believe is vitally important but belief alone isn’t enough. We must move beyond belief to a living faith. That’s what I’m hoping to explore here in the coming weeks and months. I’ll look at belief and how that impacts our daily lives. I’ll write posts on a range of faith issues and hopefully, I’ll be able to share some of my own Christian faith journey in a deeper way.

You’ll find my main blog at RodneyOlsen.net. Since November 2003 I’ve been writing posts there that reflect a range of interests from my observations on life, to faith issues, family, cycling, my work in the media and much more.

I’m not a fan of segmenting our lives and putting areas of life into boxes and so I’ll still be talking about all those things, including my faith, at my main blog. The reason I’ve decided to create Beyond Belief is that there are times I want to speak more deeply about Christian issues and I don’t think that RodneyOlsen.net is always the place to do that.

Some posts at Beyond Belief will also appear at RodneyOlsen.net, in fact I’ve imported dozens of posts which will remain at both sites. That means that even though Beyond Belief has just launched, there’s already almost 200 posts in the archives here that you can browse.

As well as the posts that this blog will share with RodneyOlsen.net, my desire is to write many faith posts that will only be found here.

I’m looking forward to developing Beyond Belief and hope that you’ll join me in the journey.