I received today what I think is called in Mafia circles `an offer I can't refuse': come clean about Rodney or face exposure.  It is good to know where the priorities are these days.

To be honest, I had completely forgotten that the Ref21 sidebar did not actually give the identity of the bloggers.  It did for many years -- something that my former Ref21 friend, Phil Ryken, insisted on -- but when it was rejigged, this was apparently omitted, as I discovered today.  So yes, for those who missed that sidebar and were at the back of the line when irony was being doled out the incredible news is: Rodney is me. 

Well, not really. To spell it out as clearly as I can:  Rodney is actually an alter ego, a caricature whose job it is to expose the vacuous nature of much that passes for hip and cool in the Christian world. There is so much work there that I simply cannot manage it by myself.  I need all the help I can get.

Does he always succeed?  Doubtful.  Who does? Does he care?  Not at all. Is he a cowardly device?  Hardly.   He generally only comments on things that I comment on too.  Strange that.

So there you have it.  For any who were wondering.  The dots have been connected.  Though I always felt they were more of a straight line.  A very straight line.

Oh, and I am also Paul Levy.  He doesn't exist either.  As to Derek Thomas: well, you will have to work that one out for yourselves.

I am also quite worried that I am about to be exposed as a Presbyterian as well.  These are scary times for me and my family.