Many years ago, actually in the previous millennium (I like how old that makes it sound), I started the Energion.com links resource to provide links to various perspectives on controversial topics, especially in religion. In those days search engines were often months behind the content, and such lists actually proved useful. Now, they are much less useful.

I’m going to recover some of those links, and add them as pages on this blog, but that’s not its major purpose. The reason I didn’t discard it is that in the reading and browsing I do I frequently find links that I’d like to mention, but there are so many of them, I don’t want to make each of them even an aside on my regular blog. There would be this scrolling of “this is interesting” links that would detract from what I’m doing.

So instead, I’m going to put them here, along with a few words categorizing them and letting you know why I chose to put them here. Mostly, I’m just going to put a link in a blog post, and if you want to find links on a particular topic, you can use the category list in the sidebar.

Though I don’t find blogrolls all that helpful in the standard old-style sense of a simple list of blogs, I’ll be using a blogroll feature that provides the most recent post from the listed blog. I’ll include sites there that I think have regular, good content that I follow.

This may not prove very useful to you, but if it doesn’t, remember that it’s isolated and doesn’t interfere with anything else.

Finally, I’m not looking for backlinks or link exchanges. I’m going to put things here that catch my interest, not things that someone wants me to put here, or things that are here just to exchange a favor.