by Stephen Rodgers

For the last Beacon profile, I explained what the purpose of the Beacon is and what Scripture governs that purpose. I also highlighted the fact that we are fortunate enough to have quite a few visitors from all over the world.

This time, I just wanted to briefly shine the spotlight on a few changes and new features that you may not be aware of.

• First of all, as anyone who visits the site can tell, we recently received a bit of a facelift due to the awesome work of Dan Baker. Up at the top you can see our new logo, which will start appearing on various places around the web. Dan also made a few tweaks to the site, mostly to help make reading the articles a more enjoyable experience.
• Also, you may have noticed that the social media code at the bottom of each post has been replaced. Since Twitter, Facebook, and the rest have made it so easy to post a link, I didn’t see any reason to keep it around. Instead, we have a new “Probably Related Posts” section that tries to find the top five related articles and display them for you. Since we are now over 600 articles strong, I wanted to do something to help you explore, navigate, and benefit from the library. If it’s not working, or if you have any other ideas for what we could do, please feel free to let me know.
• Also, we realize that not everyone is able to consistantly read all the articles. Not everyone at the church has internet access. So we have posted a rather large bulletin board in the foyer in the church that will hold recent articles. Right now the board holds approximately the last two weeks, and the collected editions stored next to it are for entire months. So if you find yourself at church in need of reading material…we’ve got you covered. If you have any suggestions for improvements there, please speak with Stephanie Yu.
• Last but not least, our staff writers continue to churn out quality articles. I especially wanted to highlight the extended series that Garrett’s been doing on Living Theology and Richard did on Communion, and now on Baptism (in progress). And as always, a big thanks goes out to our pastor and elders as well.

In the coming months, we’ve got a couple more surprises in store, but you’ll have to wait and see.

We hope you enjoy it!

Pro Rege