According to my WordPress dashboard, this is my 100th post. I started the blog three years ago shortly after retiring from active ministry in December of 2017. I was looking for neither fame nor fortune (needless to say), much less notoriety. I simply wanted to keep my hand in things.
Over that time I’ve been afforded the opportunity to pontificate in ways I could not while still working as a pastor. I have the freedom, that is, to say things more openly without undue concern for offending anyone. I’ve also been able to express built-up frustrations about the past and present state of the church – no small thing.
The blog’s overall theme, the connection between Christianity and culture, has long been an interest of mine. I am reminded of a quote attributed to the great Swiss theologian, Karl Barth: “We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.”
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