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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Ongoing Blog Developments Underway

Hello again, everyone! With somewhat of a lull today in terms of Church news and temple developments, I wanted to highlight and underscore an item of personal business. As many of you may be aware, I have recently been looking into ways to improve the look and feel of this blog, in addition to testing ways to earn more revenue from my blogging efforts. As a consequence, during this period of tests and tweaks, the layout of this blog may continue to change periodically as I work on implementing those suggestions I have found on how to do all of that. I appreciate your ongoing patience with me as I continue to attempt to work all of that out.

Additionally, I should also note that I certainly hope to be able to revisit my series of posts on near-future temple prospects that might possibly be announced during the next General Conference at some point within the next two and a half months. But my ability to do so will depend on the availability of the information I need to put those posts together. I am doing the best I can to assemble information from other sources for that purpose, but it is somewhat of a slow process.

With all of that said, I also wanted to express my gratitude to each of you, my readers, who have contributed to the ongoing dialogue about subjects covered on this blog. It is my hope that this blog can continue to be one of many sources that will be trusted for accurate and up-to-date information on all important Church news and temple developments. I do continue to monitor all of that on an ongoing basis and will do my best to bring word of those to you all as I become aware of such things.

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of updated contents and comments on this blog, please feel free to subscribe. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

2 comments:

  1. I like the new look on your blog so far. I looked forward to updates and news about th e church around the world.

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  2. Thank you, Chris! The design change was step one of that process, and I have my sweet wife to thank for helping me with that part of things. I have some other suggestions which I am working on implementing as well, but am working through some health issues that have interfered at times with my ability to take those next steps. That said, I hope to be able to continue working on these changes as I can. And in the meantime, I continue to monitor all Church news and temple developments and will do my level best to bring word of those to my readers here as I become aware of them. Thanks for stopping by to comment, Chris!

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In addition to my life-long love for the subjects which I cover in the posts of this blog, I have long held the belief that we can disagree without becoming disagreeable. Differences of opinion are natural, while being disagreeable in expressing those differences is not. And in that sense, I have no desire to close the door on anyone who earnestly desires to contribute to the ongoing dialogue on subjects covered in the posts on this blog.

At the same time, however, I recognize that we live in a time when incivility, discourtesy, unkindness, and even cyber-bullying has regrettably become part of online interactions. With that in mind, while anyone who wishes can comment on anything if they choose to do so, I hereby reserve the right to immediately delete any comments which are critical, unkind, lack civility, or promote prodcuts, services, and values contrary to either the Church, or to the rules of online etiquette.

I'd also like to remind all who comment here that I try to respond personally to each individual comment as I feel is appropriate. Such replies are not meant to end the conversation, but to acknowledge earnest feedback as it is submitted.

And in order to better preserve the spirit and pure intentions for which this blog was established, I also hereby request that anyone not commenting with a regular user name (particularly those whose comments appear under the "Unknown" or "Anonymous" monikers, give the rest of us a name to work with in addressing any replies. If such individuals do not wish to disclose their actual given names, a pseudonym or nickname would suffice.

Any comments made by individuals who opt to not give a name by which they can ber identified may, depending on the substance and tone of such comments, be subject to deletion as well. I would respectfully ask that all of us do all we can to keep the dialogue positive, polite, and without malice or ill-will. May the Lord bless us all in our discussion of these important matters.