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Why blog? One might reasonably respond, "Why not blog?" The answer for me has heretofore rested in my addictive personality, which I was afraid to let lose with such an undertaking. However, recent events in my life have prompted me to enter into intentional community with my brothers and sisters who are reflecting in the anonymity of cyberspace.

I tend to keep my thoughts to myself. Even in my seminary precepts I tend to only contribute to conversations when I feel as if I have something that needs to be said. Consequently, my academic and ministerial colleagues present their fragrant intellectual offerings (or not so fragrant/intellectual) to the God's of the academy, while I gather their insights like a squirrel gathers her acorns and retreat to the inner solace of my own mind.

Why blog? I have reached a point in my life in which I need to share my own ideas. When one engages in conversation with one's self, it is difficult to have true dialogue--short of a split-personality disorder. If you are reading these musings I encourage, nay implore, you to challenge my ideas. Many of my rantings/reflections/theologizing will be crap. However, perhaps with the collective scrutiny of my colleagues, I may transform my picayune musings into insightful ruminations on what it means to be a Christian in a post-colonial, post-Christendom, post-holocaust world. To that end, I thank you.

On the Virtues of Blogging

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