As regular readers may have noticed, I’ve been tweaking the look of the blog lately. When I first started it I didn’t have a picture of my face at the website. Now I’m experimenting with a few ideas.

The current image at the top of the page might not be everybody’s idea of what they should see at a somewhat academic blog, and certainly not the blog of a Christian (depending on what’s up there at the time you read this, as I do experiment with other ideas from time to time): Flames, guns – a few people have even said that I’m promoting violence. The same goes for the podcast with its heavy metal introduction, or the very phrase “say hello to my little friend” and its association with guns, or for that matter, the name of the website even before there was a blog: Beretta (for those who don’t know, the saying “Say Hello to my Little Friend” comes from the classic 1983 Gangster Movie Scarface, starring Al Pacino).

I don’t advocate violence in the least. I’m not a gun-toting conservative advocate of vigilantism or a socialist arms hoarder waiting for the revolution to come. The simple fact is, you need a sense of humour to appreciate this image. Go on, you can do it. The general idea is that I find the image to be fun, and in a way it depicts the way I like to ruthlessly “whack” bad ideas (and hopefully promote a few good ones along the way).

To be honest, I would have added some explosions if I didn’t think it would clutter things up too much.