Terrible Blogger
I’ve had so many idea’s for blogs this past week, yet every time I sit down to write one I completely forget the brilliant idea which I had just hours ago. Today, on my car ride home, I began to think up a (brilliant) post, only to take a nap and lose the entire thing. Perhaps one day, many years down the road, I’ll be a good blogger and actually write the brilliant things I think of, and post on a consistent basis.
It’s been my intention to do at least one substantive post a week, but I don’t know if I’ll get one up this week. Considering the large amount of time I spend doing things that aren’t quite important, you’d think I’d be able to at least put up some modicum off an intelligent thought provoking post, but I seem to do a poor job of that.
Anyways, enough with the self bashing, let’s move on to some brief life updates.
Next week begins the lent season, I’m pretty excited about it as this will be the first year I’ll be doing anything intentional in regards to Lent and Easter. Growing up in an evangelical tradition Lent was always seen as something only done by those terrible Catholics (terrible being my thought back then), but not something to be done within a “Bible Believing” church. This thought has changed over recent years, I’m seeing more and more movement towards an intentional, daresay liturgical, look upon the traditional seasons.
Wow, rabit trail, sorry.
Back on track, I’ll be using the Mustard Seed Associates Lenten guide, and participating in some of the challenges focused on bringing the ideals of Lent closer to our hearts. I’m most excited (and a bit tepid) about the $2 challenge, and I’ll be sure to post my thoughts on that experience either as I go, or at the end of the week.
I’m also reading through Divinity and Diversity for the Transforming Theology blogger consortium. The act of reading this book may perhaps be the most challenging read I’ve done in my forays into the Emerging sphere. It’s interesting that I was assigned this book considering my previous post on pluralism, though re-reading that post I can see how my views have changed over the past eight months. I’m not quite sure where I’ll end up after I’m done reading Divinity, I already have some objections to the piece, but I’ll reserve my final word till I finish the book. The book itself is quite substansive, so I think I’ll likely reread each chapter and create a post on that particular chapter, but the pure amount of information in the book looms like the giant whale the must be eaten.
One final word, if you’re in the Cobb area there is an emergent cohort that will be meeting at the Marietta Square on the second Tuesday of every month. It’s open to everyone who wants to attend, so if you want to go the information is here. I’ll be the socially awkward one doing my best to carry on conversations (I’m not very good in large groups, far better in smaller numbers).
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