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Welcome to Universal Zeal, the brand new website co-created by its authors, Sniper and his son Spacemario! Feel free to visit the about page to learn more about us.
The name has a sort of double meaning: we plan to talk a lot about God on this site; God is universal, and for Him we have great zeal. Meanwhile, Spacemario in particular also has a great zeal for God's creation, especially outer space-- the universe. Hence, Universal Zeal!
Why not simply continue the old site? The simple answer is that I've outgrown it.
I've been "blogging" since the mid-90s, before that term had even been popularized-- and at the passing of each phase of my life I've always retired one site and started a new one. The old site lasted a long time-- from January of 2007 to today; that's more than eighteen years! But since I've undergone this deep spiritual renewal and re-orientation of myself in service to others, the content there has been becoming less and less relevant, to the point where I hardly recognize my old self.
Time to start fresh!
We'll be adding a ton of content to this site over time-- right now it's pretty bare bones. My next step will be implementing a search page, which will let people search both by keyword, and also filter by tag. We'd also like to make a "links", and / or "projects" section(s)-- we'll see where things lead. But for now it's time to relax a bit and be happy that the "bones" of the site are all up and running!
The name has a sort of double meaning: we plan to talk a lot about God on this site; God is universal, and for Him we have great zeal. Meanwhile, Spacemario in particular also has a great zeal for God's creation, especially outer space-- the universe. Hence, Universal Zeal!
Why not simply continue the old site? The simple answer is that I've outgrown it.
I've been "blogging" since the mid-90s, before that term had even been popularized-- and at the passing of each phase of my life I've always retired one site and started a new one. The old site lasted a long time-- from January of 2007 to today; that's more than eighteen years! But since I've undergone this deep spiritual renewal and re-orientation of myself in service to others, the content there has been becoming less and less relevant, to the point where I hardly recognize my old self.
Time to start fresh!
We'll be adding a ton of content to this site over time-- right now it's pretty bare bones. My next step will be implementing a search page, which will let people search both by keyword, and also filter by tag. We'd also like to make a "links", and / or "projects" section(s)-- we'll see where things lead. But for now it's time to relax a bit and be happy that the "bones" of the site are all up and running!