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May
17
The End of the Anti-Manichaeist
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I’m done with blogging.
I started blogging at the Anti-Manicheist the day or so after I lost my job as a professor of Economics at a University in Mexico. It was a place for me to pour my creative energies into and to explore different sorts of interests.
Now, I believe I’m pretty close to getting another teaching job as a professor of Economics and I don’t think I need to blog anymore. I want to pour more of my energies into teaching and working on projects that will get published.
If you’ve been a lurker, please say hello. I’ll still be interacting with people who comment and who knows maybe some of the ideas I’ve developed here will actually catch on…
blessings!
dlw
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Sorry to hear this; I enjoy your comments and your material. I hope you reconsider. Perhaps you may choose to write a column for planet preterist if you get bored…
Either way, God bless!
Who knows what the future will hold?
I do believe I need to attend more to my academic career, as I have a good friend who has reminded me that my energies are scarce and that key to academia is specialization, not widespread diffusion of the sort that my blog has kind of represented.
I think there are some common threads here.
If I blog again here, it’ll be a survey of the best of the Anti-Manichaeist for my own and others’ future reference.
dlw
Did you happen to see this story in the Economist last August?
The invisible hand on the keyboard
It offers a different take that your friend has about blogging as an academic. Something to consider.
Ahh…the end of an era. I’m sorry to hear that you won’t be blogging. I know we almost always disagreed on stuff, but I always read your posts and appreciate them. You’ve made me think and I hope we’ll still be able to challenge each other in the future.
Your friend,
Mark
Cyber-wha?!
I’m so sorry to hear of your blog passing. R.I.P. Anti-Manicheist.
I hope you’ll email me stuff when you come across things, as you have time and are able. I’ve really appreciated (as Mark said) the way you’ve challenged our thinking.
Shalom,
Steve K.
Sorry to hear this, but I understand your choice. I have read most of your posts and enjoyed it. You have stimulated my thought a lot, and I will probably continue to email you.
Peace through Jesus,
Jonas
David, I’m sure there’s life after blogging, a fruitful one:) As for me, I will continue contributing to the blogosphere, albeit at a lower frequency.
Thankyou.
Michael, I don’t think the article applies to me, as I do not blog so much on traditional economics topics. It also seems to unfortunately gloss over the quality-control problem with blogging.
I just think that for me blogging further is something that wd inevitably tend to detract seriously from my academic career, at least at this point in my life. I want to be able to tell my future employers at NNU that I’ve put that stage of my life behind me.
dlw
What? There is life outside of blogging?
Yes and no. But I’m quite sure most people would view what I do as not having a life…
dlw
Don’t be so hard on yourself. You’ve been a good friend of Ukraine, one of the best I’ve known. Now go get your fair share of good life:)! God bless you.
I like what I do, for the most part.
As I liked very much blogging, but all things have their seasons. Hopefully, I will blog again, as hopefully I will return to Ukraine.
dlw
David, please keep me informed about your job search!
When it is confirmed that I have a form of employment for next year, I will post it here at my blog.
dlw
Congratulations on the new job. I think you will find that it will take a lot of your energy and creativity, so it’sprobably a good idea to put the blog on hiatus. But should you ever want to return, it will be here for you. Sad to see the passing of your blog, David, but best of luck in your new job.
Sigh. That’s 2 of my favorite blogs dying in one week. I am happy for your new job, though.
DLW, I’ve always considered you a a fresh thinker and a voice of reason from the evangelical midlands. Don’t stay gone forever. Eternity’s a long time.
Waiting for the good news:)!
Long live the Anti-Manichaeist!
Dave,
I am happy that the econ job looks good. If you get it, as you seem to think you will, I hope it leads to sold work and the kind of productivity that the blogging may not have been able to do for you.
I expect that the paid work will suck up your time. There may not be any or enough of it left over to scribble into a blog. However, I think that the blog can be a place that you can work out the arguments that you could then go on to develop into the published material that your employers expect or require.
Of course, there are other reasons to blog, like keeping in touch with people, like me, or meeting new folks. There does not have to be a serious intent to everything.
Anyway, I hope the job works out.
steven
I’ll be sure to keep in touch and I’ll post when I get the job at NNU…
dlw
Though I’ve been more of an occasional lurker than a constant responder, I have enjoyed your blog and your ways of thinking. Best to you in this new venture!
Good luck David! I’m turning over a new leaf as well. I’ll miss your posts, though I could never really understand them. HA!
Join the crowd, dude!
I got an amen chorus this past week in my systematic theology course for saying something comprehensible that my fellow students could agree with.
dlw
Your insights will be missed!!
I know what you mean about trying to blog and also trying to have a normal life. When I get busy in my ministries and teaching, it is difficult to keep a regular pace.
Hopefully you’ll continue to stop by VanguardChurch on occasion!
Thanks Bob!
I’ll try.
dlw
DLW, We’ll miss you and will look forward to anything you add in future days.
Blessings on you and your work!