Just over three years ago, I took my first, tentative steps into the so-called blogosphere.
The results were, well, not disastrous but not exactly a rousing success either.
As I look back, the venture was practically fated to fail. I was in my final semester of seminary, serving three-quarter time at a student charge, and preparing for my first full-time appointment in pastoral ministry. On the home front, my wife and I had a toddler and a newborn and were packing in preparation for a move. It’s really no surprise that I very rarely made time for extracurricular writing. It usually seemed that there weren’t enough hours in the day for what needed to be done.
And yet, even as I contemplate a relaunch, I find myself at a similar point of transition today. I recently accepted a new appointment as campus minister at Pittsburg State University and pastor of College Heights United Methodist Church, located just off campus. My children are older and more independent, but also spend significantly less time sleeping. And boxes are once more being packed in preparation for a move.
The difference this time, I think, is that I see this both as a venue for processing my thoughts (a personal discipline, of sorts) and also for sharing those thoughts with, well, anyone who cares enough to read them, I guess.
I probably won’t be publicizing this blog until I produce a little more content. (After all, prospective readers have been burned before.) But it is my hope that it will become not only a place for me to express my true self through my preferred outlet of the written word, but also to facilitate conversation about the strange places we see God at work in the world, whether that be through the cinematic medium or the body of believers that has come to be called the church.
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