Ah, the first post
Hello. Not that anyone will read this. Just a couple of thoughts. I tried putting a blog together about 4.5 years ago. I was using a 1.x version of Word Press at the time. It was all very clunky. The stuff I’ve been able to throw together now is truly staggering. I did it initially for my church website - Saint Mark Lutheran in West Henrietta, NY. I use it as a content management system for a small church. The ease, power and flexibility of Wordpress combined with Google analytics is just amazing. Web publishing and organizing is now easy enough the only thing standing in the way is having something to say.
I severely edit myself on my church site. There I stick with church announcements and theology driven topics. Theology will by necessity touch things like culture, but the approach is different. I take generally the same approach as to my sermons - speculation that is not called out is not allowed. A sermon is supposed to be the Word of God for the people at that location - so it should be what God has to say and not my bias. Being human, that is tough, but that is the reason for the viscious editing - and sticking to the Bible other than functional announcements.
The purpose of this site is two fold: 1) there are things I want to approach without that thick filter and 2) I want to try and think theologically in a broader way on subjects that might not be as settled. As a minister with a public responsibility, I still have to watch my words, but under my own heading should allow some of those culture driven issues.
So, that is the basics of what this site will be about - current events with a theological lens. I’m sure I will mention some of the formation of that lens in future posts. If you want to be able to place a lable on me quickly you can check out the about page. The long and short of it is that I’m a quirky theological conservative. You can probably guess my thoughts 80% of the time, but the 20% will surprise you. I guess you’ll just have to see. Maybe I’m not as quirky as I think.
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