Hi folks.

First, a big thanks to all who read or aggregate this blog. Thanks for your support.

PastoralEpistles.com has always been a merging of personal interests of mine: technology/programming and study of the Pastoral Epistles. I actually wrote the code that makes this site work.

However, things are changing. I've always thought it would be good to have multiple contributors, and in the past week someone has approached me about becoming an blogger for the site, and I'm sure he'll make a great addition.

This is good, but it means many changes. First, the way this site works on the back end is a bit byzantine. I wouldn't want to subject anyone to it, and I don't have the time (or desire) to really make it something that people who aren't me could use.

That means the whole site will be changing. I'll be installing new software (dasBlog 1.9) that supports team blogging. It means some of the interconnectedness that the site used to offer (e.g. the indexes in the sidebar) will go away, but it also means that people who aren't me can use the site.

So now it's time to make a call for participants. Are you interested in blogging regularly about the Pastoral Epistles? I'm not concerned about your perspective. I'd love to have contributors/authors here who see the PE as Pauline, and those who see them as pseudepigraphal, and those who see them anywhere in the spectrum. I think the resulting dialogue will be fun and instructive.

Posts can be book reviews, mentions of or interaction with articles or conference papers, pointers to web sites or blog posts that you think are somehow relevant, exegesis of particular passages, articles on larger topics related or ancillary to the PE ... really, as long as you can somehow work it back to the PE, then it can likely be posted.

If you're interested in making regular posts — minimum of one per week, let's say — then please contact me via email. Tell me a bit about yourself, point me to anything you've written (be it on the PE or not).

And keep your eyes on the site. Thanks again for those who regularly read the blog and correspond with me.