Faith in Action

On Sunday, August 10, 2008 the Faith in Action family reached a significant milestone. At approximately 6:00PM EST, this blog welcomed it’s 100,000th visitor!

For the past 3 years and five months, a very important community has developed around this site. Never in a million years could I have imagined all that this blog would grow to become.

So many fascinating people - so many pertinent perspectives - so many passionate conversations. This space has become more than just something I do in my downtime. FIA has become a very close friend and a daily source of information, encouragement, and challenge.

100,000 visitors is nothing to sneeze at in a world where people have an infinite number of options to visit while surfing the world wide web. I must thank all of you who visit here - whether you jump in and let your voice be heard or stand on the sidelines and watch the fireworks - I thank you. This is YOUR blog. YOUR space and as much YOUR journal as it is mine.

In addition, I’m extremely excited by the fact that there are 168 subscribers to this blog. People from all over the country with various religious beliefs, a myriad of political stances, and a plethora of life experiences subscribe to this site to listen in or chip in.

To top this all off, a good brother of mine - Chip - serendipitously sent me an email yesterday saying that he was nominating Faith In Action for a 2008 Black Weblog Award.

Now when a few of my other brothers put my name up to replace Tavis as the commentator on Tom Joyner’s Radio Show I went along with it, but kind of brushed it off. Being on nationally syndicated radio isn’t that big of a deal to me and really I believe that my local voice is my most powerful one. (I’d much rather be an inch wide and a mile deep than the reverse.)

But when Chip sent me the email about the Black Weblog Award I got a bit excited. Not so much because I think that I write amazing, life-changing articles that the world must read, but because I really do believe that a very unique community has grown here and while blogs tend to be about the blogger her/him self, this blog I believe is more about “Us” and our passionate exchange on the issues. (However, I confess - I’m biased…and extremely so.)

So if you have a moment and you feel led, I invite you to send in a nomination for Faith in Action on the 2008 Black Weblog Awards Website. I think that “Best Faith-based” blog would be the most appropriate category. (Let me know if you think another category fits better.)

NOTE: While you’re there please consider nominating these fascinating blogs for some much deserved recognition.

Thanks and again - Congratulations. See you at 200,000!