It’s a year today since I gave up lurking and started blogging. Enough folk have been positive and encouraging about their visits to livingwittily for me to feel that, though it’s a place where I can think in words and try ideas, others like those reading this now, are listening / reading / commenting / appreciating – and that, whether or not you are agreeing.
373 posts represents a lot of words, ideas, time and work – so the question why I go on blogging needs some justification, if only to me.
- a place to think in words
- a forum to try ideas
- a way of enhancing the good stuff in life by noticing it and telling it
- a regular excuse to celebrate the joy and contentment of reading
- a meeting place with others who are usually critically appreciative companions
- a voice that tries to speak truth about what it means to be human, and to care about justice and long for peace
- a form of theological reflection aiming at acting faithfully by living wittily!
I suppose I could keep the list going, but most of these are reason enough, at least for me and for the moment. I don’t doubt that communication technology, developments in software, social habits, will mean folk move on to new things, or maybe blogging will exhaust itself as a useful, or amusing, or socially relevant form of virtual or literary conversation.
This week sees the birth of a Scottish Baptist College Blog. You can find it here. This won’t be updated daily or anything like as often. But it will feature a number of posts a month, ranging from College news, information about previous students, book reviews, theological reflections on this and that, and some ongoing discussions about such obvious areas as training for ministry, theological education, changing patterns and approaches to how we express our life together in a Scottish Baptist context, and anything else we think would be interesting, important, aye, and fun. Where significant new posts are added I’ll mention them here.
I haven’t forgotten the Haiku Introduction to the NT. All NT books are now done – but I can’t get the software on Typepad to accept large chunks of cut and paste without it doing daft things to it. So in spare moments, I’ll begin to type up the end result and post it when it’s complete.
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