Beginning in December, my readership began to take off. In the cyber world, algorithms create views. I suspect that an adjustment to the algorithm has created this new rush. It certainly isn’t about me writing better or on more interesting topics, as I have always strived to write well and to write about intriguing topics. I hope I’m finding the niche I originally intended, those who observe the difficulties in the Christian religion but are not allowed to discuss openly.

I want to welcome the thousand new readers and ask you to subscribe so that you can continue to follow this site. I want to thank you and to describe my future path.

Someone at church said to me once, “Mike, do you understand that your blog makes no sense. You write things about Christianity that are absurd.” But I do not write for the status quo, as I have written ad nauseam that my heart is with those leaving Christianity, to address the absurdities within the faith honestly, so that they don’t leave the historical Jesus of Galilee. My intentions have never been to convert the traditional Christians to my point of view, and certainly not to fight with anyone.

My Future Plan

I have studied what the new visitors are reading. They are reading my current posts, which typically focus on this deconstruction of the failing church. I will continue my compassionate but honest writing on this topic. I know that my days are numbered on this Earth, but I hope to eventually write a book about the post-Christian world, allowing the traditional church to continue and those who love it just as it is, while creating a new path for followers of Jesus to leave the prevailing religious version and follow a simpler, more honest one.

I am also concerned about the church’s future in the age of AI. I believe that the present state of the church, how its culture approaches epistemology (how it finds truth) subjectively, will be a serious problem going forward. In the last decade, the “stress test” of the internet and social media has left the church as a whole failing miserably. There is no better home for conspiracy theories and lies than within that part of the church that depends only on subjective “truths.” I recommend the best-selling bookNexus by Yuval Noah Harari, which explores the future of civilization and the challenges posed by AI.

The second thing the new readers are reading is my previous post about my journey with Multiple Myeloma. I am now working on a book, about 2/3s of the way through, with a working title: How Cancer Taught Me to Swear. In that book, I take a satirical, sometimes funny, but profoundly honest journey on how I, as an individual, and we as a society, deal with cancer. I may post some of those stories here later. I probably won’t write about my current battle with cancer until my cancer comes out of remission and I have something to write about.

But again, thank you so much for your visits and “likes.”

Mike