Dear friends, I would like to thank you for reading Soul Man and commenting in the past year. The Holy Spirit has been convicting me about my blogging inconsistency over the last couple months.  So I want to I simply and humbly apologize and ask your forgiveness for my negligence.

Over the last several months The Williams Tribe has been transitioning to my new position and new community at Trinity Church. This time has been a time of laughter, grief (leaving Tabernacle), excitement, adventure, opportunities, change and sometimes fear of that change. We weren’t expecting God to “move our cheese,” but he did and each day we are excited to sniff out the new “Cheese Station” and opportunities that he has provided us. I will be blogging soon about the lessons God is already teaching me and my family. But, I wanted to take time today to offer this apology for my delinquency and to let you know that, like vanilla extract, I’m back in the mix.

In what area of your life – family, friendships, community, or finances – have you been delinquent and need to be more consistent? To what commitment do you need to say, “I’m back?”

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I have been blogging since November 2008, thanks to my good friend Pastor Clarence Stowers.  He is one of my Soul Shapers. I started using Typepad as my blogging platform and I have enjoyed my relationship with them. However, I decided to move to WordPress because it is more user friendly and has more robust features.

I would like to thank my web/blog designers Chris and Erin of Arcane Palette Creative Design. They spent the last month designing, coding and transferring all my content and images from Typepad to WordPress. I thank God for Chris and Erin’s patience with my changes and additions. The design is hot. 

You will immediately notice some changes, with some brand new and exciting features that I think you will love. Here are some of the changes:

1. Exciting new Soul Man design. I wanted the design to have some grunge and swagga. I think they hit the ball out of the park, upper deck. 

2. The header banner changes. I was really excited about the way this part of the design turned out. I have three banners – A Soul Story (Personal and ministry testimony), The Heart of my Soul (My family), and Africa (I have a growing love affair with the Continent). If you click on these images, you will be taken to content/narrative about each. I will be adding more pages to this banner. 

3. Side panel photos rotate. Every time you refresh the page or go to a new page, you will see a different picture of me, my family or ministry in Africa.

4. I have added some pages that I am really amped about, including Soul Music and Soul Shapers. Soul Music will be a page dedicated to original poetry and spoken word pieces by me and other artists. The Soul Shapers page is dedicated to people and ministries who have shaped my soul in a variety of ways. I will add more to the list and a brief narrative for each as to how they have shaped me.

5. I had Intense Debate installed. Intense Debate is a robust comment plug-in. It will allow for threaded comments, ratings, user profile, etc.

6. I will add advertisement pages to the site. I will only run adds for products or services that  I  personally use and feel comfortable recommending. 

If you need a web designer, who specializes in WordPress, I highly recommend Chris and Erin of Arcane Palette Creative Design. 

What do you think of my new home? What do you like about the new design/blog? What don’t you like? I really want to know. 

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