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The Last Reformed Blogger by Sarah Eikoff Zylstra, read by the author.

Long after it was cool, Tim Chalys kept blogging.

When his contemporaries, such as Justin Taylor at Between Two Worlds,

Joe Carter at Evangelical Outpost, and Jared Wilson at the Gospel-Driven Church,

slowed down or moved on, he kept posting at chalys.com.

When multiple organizations invited him to write for them, he kept going on his own.

And when online communication shifted from Facebook to YouTube to Substack, he kept posting on his

own site. Even the increasing drama of the Internet didn't slow him down.

If your blog grows large enough, you will one day realize there is absolutely nothing you can say anymore without being criticized.

He told Joe in 2018, after 15 years of online writing.

Still, he kept going.

He is now up to 14,972 posts in 23 years. Every day,

he posts an original article, points to a book deal, or highlights good content from around the

web. Tim knows he's working with an aging medium. If I had a dime for every time someone asked me whether

there's a future for blogs and blogging, I could probably buy Twitter, he said in 2023.

It's not that Tim is a dinosaur or a ludite. In 2003, he was one of the first in the game,

experimenting with blogging software movable type and then WordPress almost as soon as they were released.

It would be more accurate to say he was self-motivated, independent, and faithful.

Day after day under the tagline, informing the reforming, he wrote about books, theology,

and the rapidly growing young, restless and reform movement.

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