Been blogging now for over two years. Mostly I'm happy doing random postings from the lengthy serious to the shorter fun stuff, from theology to poetry, from unabashed baptist stuff to the essential correctives from other Christian traditions, from book reviews to political and cultural comment. I'd like to stick with the spontaneous and unpredictable daily diet – that way personal interests, daft impulses, serious reflection, can be combined with generally directive rambling around theological ideas.
At the same time there's a couple of bigger projects I'd quite like to play around with. I've already started a weekly Brueggemann conversation Friday by Friday. During Lent I'll start another regular weekly posting as an experiment with biblical text. Nothing ambitious – just an attempt to exegete the chosen text by performative practices! And the chosen text is the Lord's Prayer.
Instead of trying to exegete the meaning of the text first – supposing I try to live it while also trying to understand it, allowing reflective study and reflective practice to shape each other?
It could be an experiment reflecting on and recording the cost and consequence of living out of a text that is itself living, and active, and pierces to the marrow – to the core of who I am, and to the heart of what's important.
Anyway my plans for Lent are to live daily with the Lord's Prayer. I'll say more about why and how in the next post.
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