Welcome to the new home of God versus religion! Your subscription has moved from godversusreligion.com to godversusreligion.org. This is the first of what will likely be monthly updates—sharing new content, site improvements, and reflections to help you grow in understanding and relationship with God. This welcome email will be the first of occasional emails, probably once a month, to let you know what’s happening here. There are so many enhancements over the previous version, and more are on the way. Some of them are explained below. They make the site more accessible for people with several disabilities, while maintaining the visual features regular readers are used to.
There are also features tested out towards the end of the previous site, but that proved to be too resource intensive for it. Summaries, FAQs, and better searching are among them. I pray all this serves to enhance your understanding of God as I try to make it easier to read and navigate the site.
Of course, since it’s only me, it will take time to move over items from the old site that I want to maintain. Others will just age out and be replaced with new, updated content. For now, the old site is still available at https://godversusreligion.com.
By the way, the switch to a “.org” site does not mean it’s now affiliated with any church, denomination, or other non-profit that I’m now beholden to. I’m still free to give you various views from different denominations and religions. While my own beliefs are stated, my goal, as from the beginning about 15 years ago, is to give you the information and resources to come to you own decisions on what you believe. We all should “own our own faith”. It shouldn’t be on what someone else told us to believe. Yes, that places the responsibility on us to learn, understand, and make our own choices about our faith. And isn’t that the way it should be? No one else is going to be with you in the end, when you face Jesus.
No one else will be with you in the end—when you meet Jesus. What we believe in this life determines whether that moment is one of celebration or judgment.
BTW – It’s fine if you don’t believe now. I do pray that you will learn from here and from other sources, that you will experience God in the fullest ways, and that someday we’ll see each other in the next life!
➕ add new features, especially for people with vision
This icon appears on every page and will open up a menu for a wide variety of visual accessibility options. There are prebuilt profiles from the vendor, Accessibility Assistant, as well a large number of individual settings.
The profiles, as of this writing, are: Blind, Elderly, Motor Impaired, Visually Impaired, Color Blind, Dyslexia, Cognitive and Learning, Seizure Safety, and ADHD,
A full list of options and explanations is coming soon – working out some licensing issues with the vendor – there are some missing features, and I have to see if I can afford them, since I generate no revenue from the site.
➕ moved to a new host for better performance
Web hosting sites changes over time. My old one made changes that were helpful for some, but it caused mine to get slower and slower until it was unbearable. I’ve spent the past 2 months preparing for this transition and it’s now ready to go live. The easiest way to do this was to change the name. That’s why it now .org instead of .com
➕ reorganize the site – after so many years, growing to over 700 articles, it was just too hard to find things.
The number of top-level categories has been greatly reduced. It’ll begin with five, hopefully not adding too many more. Then there’ll be subcategories under that. The goal is to make it easier to find topics you’re looking for,
The subscription process will also change. When each of the 5 top-level categories has at least one article under it, you’ll be able to subscribe to the categories you want to be informed of. The newsletter will still let you know what’s been published each month, but the immediate notification will only be for the topics you’re most interested in.
➕ Greater use of AI – when appropriate
In the original site, I was beginning to use AI more, mostly to save me time. Having said that, and having worked in the IT field professionally and later for writing, I understand the issues with AI. I only use it where appropriate, for things like finding sources, summarizing when using a number of sources for one area or research to save you from having to read all of them, and for doing article summaries and for most of the images I use.
The thing is, I personally double check both the resources and what AI produces. Unlike some, I don’t just ask it to write the whole thing, nor do I include even pieces of content that AI generates without being sure it’s correct (as far I anyone can do that anymore) and that I agree with it. This topic is too important to leave it to chance that AI may or may not be hallucinating, as the off the rails content is known.
I also clearly mark all AI content either with special font/coloring of text or it’s clearly labelled as such in headings. I also Identify which AI engine I use. Full disclosure – it tends to be Copilot or Claude since I have pro licenses for them. I also use Gemini, but that tends to be for quickly finding something. In addition, I use Logos/Faithlife software which includes their own AI capability.
Have a blessed day,
chris
➕ Published for the grand opening:
✅ Category: Bible Study Series invites yo to explore the Bible through a series that might be based on a passage, theme, or even a book from the Bible.
☑ Revelation: A book of hope through relationships: A new series being written now. It looks at Revelation as a book of great hope. Not the usual way many people view it, but that’s exactly what it is—or should be—for everyone. It frequently looks to the symbolism references in the Old Testament to understand what’s happening in the vision.
📌 Ephesus – To/From: Who Speaks, Who Listens, and Why Love Was Lost: The first of the seven letters, with a strong message to return to God or lose your status as a church both on earth and in Heaven.
☑ Seven Letters to Seven Churches: This is a previously written series about the letters written to the churches. It looked at the churches from a historical and cultural viewpoint. It also got into history and the original Habrew language in it. The series Revelation: A book of hope through relationship will link to this one for additional information rather than duplicate this series content.
🗸 The letter to the loveless church in Ephesus
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