Hello, I’m Lincoln Harper, a student of philosophy and theology from the United Kingdom. I decided to start a Catholic blog because, quite simply, I’m a Catholic and I worry about how we’re perceived. It’d be great if someone read my blog and thought “wow, who knew Catholics were normal?”

I say that not because Catholics are inherently weird, although we are a bit of an odd bunch, I say it because people have an image of Christians today as being either really liberal – “Jesus loves us, let’s all hold hands and sing together” – or, in the nicest possibly way, stupid – “X, Y and Z are wrong because it says so in a book written by humans millennia ago”. As Catholics, we’re not like them, we use our collective reason to interpret the bible, and don’t brand everyone as sinners. 

It’s not only that, I’m passionate about my faith – a quality that seems to be disappearing in our society. I’m not referring to atheists so much here, but passivity amongst religious people. People neglect their spiritual life today, it seems that people like to compartmentalise their life – faith in one box, work in another, family in another and so on. The faith box gets opened every Sunday or at Christmas, and gets closed promptly. This isn’t faith, faith is lived everyday in our daily lives. I always find it amazing the way people say to me “I pegged you as a Christian” or “you seem like the religious type” when I don’t tell people I’m a Catholic (unless they ask) or wear a crucifix around my neck. People know I’m a Christian because I (try to) live out the values of Christ each day.

More about Lincoln

There’s not a lot to know really. I’m a student based in the United Kingdom, studying philosophy and theology. I like walking, watching movies, reading and just generally socialising with my friends. I wish I had something interesting to say, like paragliding, but I don’t – not yet anyway!

I would put a picture up here, but I don’t know if I could handle all the girls throwing themselves at me. Kidding, of course, I’d just like a bit of privacy.

Donate

If you’d like to give Lincoln some money, you may do so by checking out the donate post. The post also talks about why you’d want to give me your money.

Comments policy

I’m not sure whether this blog will get a lot of comments, but I think it’s important to put-in-place a policy to make sure that the right type of community is developed.

First, you can have a point of view that’s different from mine and I’ll not deny your right to express it. Variety is the spice of life, after all! However, personal attacks against me or other commenters will not be tolerated. Remember to take the right tone in any comments; try not to sound deliberately provocative or mean.

Swearing is permitted, there’s nothing bad about ‘bad language’ in the right context. Please do try to use standard English, not everyone can understand txt speak.

Obviously spam is never acceptable. Just go away if you’re going to spam. Also, remember never to give out personal information online.

One final thing, I have the following rights which I can use at my discretion: control over content and comments; ability to edit comments; ability to censor comments; ability to delete comments ability to prevent comments by specific persons or groups. I probably won’t use them, I’m just asserting that I reserve those rights.

Licensing

The content of this blog is licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK: England and Wales licence. This means you’re free to re-use the content here, as long as you give us attribution and license any derivative works under the same licence. Individual pictures used here may have their own licence, please check whether re-use is allowed.

Please note that the style/design of this blog may not be freely copied because it’s part of the ‘branding’ it has. People that visit the blog will learn to associate it with its design. If other sites start using this design, people may become confused and it will harm our image.

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