Moving this blog

    Hi everyone! After some deliberation I’ve decided to move my blog over to a new address, https://thechristianuniversalist.blogspot.com/, and change the name to The Christian Universalist. I came to this decision for a few reasons:

• When I began this blog, I was heavily influenced by the thought of A. E. Knoch and his followers, who loosely identify as “Concordant”. The beliefs that I held at that time included dogmatic hyper-dispensationalism and anti-trinitarianism, and a lot of my past posts on this blog reflect that. I no longer hold dogmatically to any of these beliefs (although I still hold loosely to some form of dispensationalism and unitarianism, just not anti-trinitarianism).

• In the interest of ecumenical engagement with the wider Christian tradition, I would prefer not to emphasize the dogmatic aspects of my former beliefs. However, out of love for my former fellow “Concordants” and dogmatic unitarians, I also don’t want to delete all those posts, since some of them have used and continue to use these posts to better understand and defend their own beliefs. Therefore I think it would be better for me to leave those posts up on this blog while moving my new posts to a different site.

• I also don’t really like the name The Universalist Heretic anymore. Originally, I used this name somewhat ironically because other Christians called me a heretic, and also in order to distinguish my own beliefs from ‘orthodox’ Christian tradition (of course, I never truly believed I was a heretic, and I still don’t, since tautologically I agree with my own beliefs).

• However, I now realize that referring to myself as “heretic” may be a stumbling block to Christians who would otherwise be interested in the universalist beliefs I write about. (This was brought to my attention by a Catholic universalist on the Christian universalism subreddit.) Furthermore, for the reasons mentioned above, I no longer want to distinguish myself sharply from wider Christian tradition, which the “heretic” title does.

For these reasons, I’ll no longer be writing new blog posts at this site, and I’ll instead be posting them to The Christian Universalist. I’ll also be moving some of my old posts, specifically the ones dealing with Christian universalism (and a few miscellaneous other topics), to that site. Please visit me there! I promise I have a lot more to write about.