I’ve uploaded an update to the collection of my weblog writings: Acts of Being: Selected Weblog Writings From 2006 to 2018. Here is the text from the Preface for this new edition:
I’ve added another 25 or so chapters to this Eighth Edition. All but this chapter are reformatted essays from my writings during 2018 which were published on my active weblog, Acts of Being.
In 2018, I continued to work—very fitfully—on the next novel in the series which started with Gathering the Silence, a story of a conversion to being an author on top of a conversion to Sacramental Christianity. This second novel, Stranger in a Strange Land, was put to the side for a different set of excuses than in 2016 and 2017: I was spending too much time trying to make sense of the gangsterish ruling elite of the United States (and other Western countries) but I was also trying to turn back to more fundamental matters in metaphysics and theology. As a result, a relatively large percentage of essays posted in 2018 made it into Part VII, titled What Means It All?. I hope to finish Stranger in a Strange Land by May at the latest. I’ve also begun to work on other mothballed novels and seem to still have little interest in working on a nonfiction book though I continue to study mathematics and science, trying to draw concepts from those fields which experienced such explosive growth in various ways in recent centuries. I’ll continue writing shorter nonfiction pieces for my blog.
Enjoy.