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Stay tuned for a re-launch of this blog at another host location. This site should be up until Aug. 28 or so. The new site will be launched before that date.

The Evangelical Outpost has posted a list of 100 Christian Blogs that he has "found to be the most convicting, enlightening, frustrating, illuminating, maddening, stimulating, right-on and/or wrongheaded by Christians expressing a Christian worldview."

I have to ask, who has the time to be influenced by that many blogs?

I've never been content with the name Verum Peto because I always feared it was a bone-headed translation. I was right. It's supposed to mean "truth seeker" in Latin, but it's not correct. I was very concerned about this possibility because googling verum peto only yielded a few hits that mostly pointed to a group of Freemasons. And, because I doubted I was the only one clever enough to use "Truth Seeker" in Latin as a title or motto, I expected to find many more hits. I finally found a site that catalogs Latin quotations, maxims, phrases, and mottos, and verum peto doesn't appear. Sigh. Perhaps Monkus Ignoramus would have been more appropriate.

The Latin phase that I was really looking for (and that has far more relevant hits on Google) was Quaere Verum, which translates as "seek truth."

So, the name of my blog will be changed, but I'm not going to use Quaere Verum because it's too common (and because it stings a bit). Keeping with the Latin theme, here are some new alternatives. Please voice your opinions.

Compos mentis - Of sound mind (and judgement)
Deo vindice - God will prove us right.*
Ecce signum - Behold the proof
Fides quaerens intellectum - Faith seeking understanding
Lux et veritas - Light and Truth
Pactum serva - Keep the faith
Promotor fidei - Promoter of the faith
Salve veritate - Saving the truth (a little arrogant)

*I liked Deo vindice until I discovered it's the motto of the Confederate States of America.

Other options that may not be appropriate but made me chuckle:

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo! - Make me chaste and pure, but not yet!
Huc accedit zambonis! - Here comes the Zamboni!
Lusus naturae - A freak of nature
Nolite id cogere, cape malleum majorem - Don't force it, get a bigger hammer
Pecvniate obedivnt omnia - All things obey money. Money makes the world go round
Potestatem obscuri lateris nescis - You don't know the power of the dark side. (a personal favorite)

Finally, my favorite:
Illegitimis nil carborundum - Don't let the bastards grind you down

All suggestions will be considered.

Quick update:

I'm still off fast food, as long as Pizza Hut doesn't count.

I've been busy at work overseeing the installation of my new driving simulator.

I'm way, way, way behind in my reading for the year.

My wife and I have been busy getting our house ready to sell. Our first open house was this past Sunday.

My friend William started a blog.

I was hesitant to start a blog for many reasons, including the burden of posting regularly. My wife became very ill not long after I started this blog and that slowed me down. However, I have no excuse over the past few weeks for failing to post. My friend Mike has accepted the challenge to post in his blog every day in November in recognition of National Blog Posting Month or NaBloPoMo for short. Whereas I am not up for that challenge (clearly), I have decided to get off my butt and start posting again.

I did not intend to let so much time lapse between my last entry and this one, but life circumstances have occupied me in other ways, as most of you know. I've been thinking about posting for a week or so but I haven't been able to come up with a good entry. So, I'm posting this I'm back entry just to get over the hump.

As an aside, I'm really enjoying O'Conner's "Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English." I recommend it, especially if you have some nagging grammar uncertainties or some common vocabulary misunderstandings. O'Conner does a good job of explaining a lot of do's and don'ts in grammar, making it a nice refresher. I suspect that it's the grammarphiles that read this book, though, not the grammarphobes.

After lurking around the internet for sometime, I've decided that it needs yet another blog. I'll write about movies, books, sports, technology, because there's just nothing out there like that. Actually, I'll focus heavily on faith, science, Christian apologetics, and my own spiritual journey, as well as life's funny experiences. I'm calling my blog Verum Peto, Latin for truth seeker.

As a Christian, I believe God is the god of truth and therefore we needn't fear wherever the truth leads us. Thus, the record of my journey begins...