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Last Updated June 27, 2005 by Matt Leave a Comment

I decided that I needed to change my blog’s name to something that was shorter and more broad. Before, the title was like a hundred letters long. And it didn’t even roll off of your tounge nicely. “Oh, you want the url to my blog? Well, do you have a few sheets of paper to write it down?… Oh, ok. Sorry about that. Maybe some other time.”

Also, it was fairly narrow in scope. It centered around youth ministry, theology, and emerging church type stuff, because that tends to be what I write about. Then I realized that if my interests change or if I want to go a different direction with my blog, I needed something that would fit regardless of content.

When I was thinking about it, noticed that a lot of the things I write about on here are pretty much how I want the world to be in an idealized state. I tend to write in terms of ideals and forget about the practicality of things at times. So, this blog is basically by own little utopia. Matt’s utopia. Put the two together and… BAM! Mattopia.

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