About

Old habits die hard. I shut down Left at the Altar at its old Blogger address in September 2006, and stayed away from blogging for almost a year, until I fell off the wagon last summer and started Mental Map. But Mental Map just hasn’t been clicking for me. I missed posting on Left at the Altar, and I heard from others who missed it.  So here we go again!

Why not just start up at the old address instead of making you change your bookmark? I got a little tired of the Blogger format, and a little paranoid about letting Google (which now owns Blogger) into so many aspects of my internet life — email, calendar, my daily search patterns, AND a blog??? That’s kind of creepy.

Once again, expect items on religion (if you’re new here, I’m of the liberal Christian persuasion), science, philosophy (I’m a doctoral student in environmental ethics), politics, justice issues, etc. I may try to import a few posts from Mental Map before Squarespace kills it, but let’s just get back to business!

One Response to “About”

  1. Alana Krivo-Kaufman Says:
    June 16, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Dear Mizm,

    I hope you will be able to join us for the Progressive Faith Bloggers Conference, scheduled for the first weekend in August. We hope you will share the perspectives you have gained blogging on Left at the Altar. This year presents a huge opportunity for those in the blogsphere keyed into progressive issues from a religious background, and we’re really hoping to make a meeting of the minds happen.

    The Progressive Faith Blog Con(ference) would be held the first weekend of August ‘08, organized by an ad-hoc committee of bloggers including including Expatriated Texan, CrossLeft, Institute for Progressive Christianity, jspot.org, and the RACBlog, among others. We are hoping to build off of the previous conference by putting together a weekend of workshops, networking, panels, and speakers in D.C.. BUT first we need to know that there is sufficient interest. Given the need for a powerful progressive faith voice during this election year, we hope you will be able to join us.

    Please reply as soon as possible to let me know, on a scale of 1-5, your likelihood of attending: 1 (no way), 2 (unlikely), 3 (possible), 4 (probable), 5 (definite). Quick stats on the event- held in D.C., 1-2 days, weekend of August 1-3rd, low cost, possible travel subsidies.

    Also, if you have any feedback or insights from the last PFBC, questions, additional bloggers to contact or suggestions, feel free to send those along as well.

    Thanks,

    Alana Krivo-Kaufman
    JFSJ, Intern

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