It's been 7 years since I last posted on this site. A lot has changed since then.
Some highlights:
Covid
I retired from parish ministry
Some things are still around, all be it, they are a little more aged and grey. My family is still around, I still live on the prairie, and I still gather around tables, real and metaphorical.
At this moment I am not quite sure why I want to resurrect this blog? Podcasts are the thing nowadays. I tried a podcast about 15 years ago with my good friend Mark Davis, perhaps the most excellent minister in the entire USA. We had other jobs and interest, and so we didn't put a lot of effort into it. Who knew they would be the way the world lives in 2026?
Funny, but I stopped writing this blog because the political climate was changing, and I didn't want my words to be part of that conversation. Right or wrong, it is clearer to me now that the change was coming long before I noticed it, and we're not done yet. I suppose someone could parse through the 490 some posts I have on this blog, and detect a particular political leaning. I don't care how you label my politics, my goal is always to serve God first. ( Of course, for a follower of the Christian God that means you serve your neighbor first.)
There will be no monetization of this blog from my end. Google will do its own thing. As I look back on this blog over the 20 years since I first conceived it, it was always meant to be a public journal of my public life as a parish minister, a pastor. Since I no longer have a public life as a public minister, that impetus has faded. If I have a public ministry these days, this is it.
I do hope you can gather around tables and talk. Have conversations. Change has come, and it will keep coming. Change is how we know we are alive. It's how we know there can be a tomorrow.
I've linked this song before because it is one of the greatest songs of all time. May your tables be full, and your conversations be true.
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