This blog is the third incarnation of Real Live Preacher. My original blog was at blogs.salon.com from 2002 to 2005. Then a friend set up a Drupal site for me. I didn’t know I should have been paying someone to upgrade Drupal regularly, so after a couple of years, my site got into trouble. I was inundated with comment spam and other security problems that later versions of Drupal addressed. The server I was using did not give me enough resources to handle the traffic load from Real Live Preacher.
 
I didn’t know it, but Real Live Preacher was on the verge of collapsing. And I didn’t have adequate backup arranged, so I would have lost the entire site. I have all of my writing in the original Word documents, but I have written so much that I probably never would have found the time to manually re-enter it.
 
At that point, Tim Miller found me. Jethro Consultants took over the management of