It wasn’t too long ago that I signed up for Text-Link-Ads. I’d had Google Ads on the site for a while, but the ads were a bit off topic, if not out and out strange. So I signed up for TLA in hopes of a little better deal, and more relevant ads.
The way TLA works: You sign up and wait to get approved. Once you get the okay, you tell them how many text ads (one line each) you’ll put up and on how many pages. Then you wait. Hopefully, someone buys a month-long ad for your site. For each ad, you get a few bucks a month. You can knock any ad you don’t like off your site, and they don’t sell ads for porn sites or other spam.
I’m still waiting for that first ad. One or two of the things would pay for Making Chutney, but a medium-traffic religion blog ain’t exactly a hot commodity for web advertisers.
So my curiosity was piqued by TLA’s new service, ReviewMe.com. Click to continue reading “Reviewing “ReviewMe.com”—A better way to pay for your blog?”
Making Chutney made it into the Winter 2006 edition of UU World! In a new part of the letters section, you can now find blogged responses to UU World articles. Many thanks to Chris Walton and his posse for the surprise nod for my awkwardly titled post, “We are dependent rational (religious) animals.”
If you’re new here, please feel free to take a look around. If you’re interested in my salvo against the “pop secularists,” you might also enjoy—or love to hate—these posts:
Comments are open on all these posts, so feel free to give a shout out or a shout back.
Click the thumbnail for the full toon. (With hat tips to Lord Belvedere for help in frame two and Chalicechick for copy editing.)
Chutney surfs the interweb so you don’t have to—his feed reader clocks in at over 200 feeds! And thanks to a new service from Google Reader, he can now share with you the diamonds in the rough.
So click on Good Reads (available in the tab bar above) and check out what Chutney has been reading.
(For bloggers interested in adding this service, there is a good tutorial at inkBlots.)
Remembering that reconciliation is a spirituality, not a strategery, we can see three ways to put reconciliation into action. (Courtesy of Schreiter.)
1. Relearn to listen patiently, to ourselves and to others. Between work and email and errands, we forgot how to listen to stories of pain. Maybe we never learned. Maybe no one taught us.
But stories of exile and exodus need telling. A demon will not leave until it is named. As story-telling animals, we must name our demons through narrative, however tempting the categories and labels of ideology and factism. We long for stories, and our lives feel out of whack without them.
Telling stories takes time–and not just the telling of them. Reflection, framing, revising—all these things go into telling our stories. It’s never a one shot deal. Some stories, perhaps most, cause pain to tell and pain to hear. Those stories especially need to be told over and over again. Through them, we learn to see our neighbors with new eyes. Click to continue reading “Three ways to do the spirituality of reconciliation (post 7 in ubuntu series)”
That’s right, fearless readers. Team Chutney hit one thousand posts this week! So stick that in your pickle and smoke it, er, or something.
