“Don’t leave!”
I recall friends in elementary school telling their friend group they were moving. Talk about tugging on heartstrings. It did not take long to learn that this was often a ruse. Feeling down or neglected, the announcement of an impending departure garnered the missing attention.
Some time back, I moved my writing efforts, as meager as they have been, here to Substack. I like it. I migrated most, if not all, of the old posts from my website here. I have still maintained the website. I have been thinking of pulling the plug on the Wordpress-based site. The one thing that has kept me from doing so? I do want to restart the podcast.
I will see my friend Josh Reterrer in a couple of weeks, and I strongly feel he will press me again to get behind the mic. In the next few days or weeks, I will see how the podcast feature works here on Substack. Speaking of getting behind the mic again . . .
My young friend Taylor Mertins invited Josh Munnikhuysen and me to discuss the Lectionary Scriptures for Eastertide 2 and 3. We had a good time. If you, as a preacher, or someone in a church that follows the Revised Common Lectionary for your church’s preaching program, you will find Strangely Warmed an encouraging resource.
In fact, I was recently invited to join the team at Crackers & Grape Juice. They have a group of podcasts with different aims. Check them out. Another resource offered by Crackers & Grape Juice is what they are calling House of Theological Studies. I have been involved in this project for a while. Recently we spent the Mondays in the Season of Lent working through Chris E. W. Green’s book of Lenten homilies. Being Transfigured: Lenten Homilies. One of our own panelists, Anthony “Tony” Robinson’s book, What’s Theology God to do with it?: Convictions, Vitality, and the Church.
My mentor called yesterday.
“What are you excited about?” he asked.
Knowing that he was not thinking of my revived interest in the sport of Disc Golf, I replied that I had picked up a little book by the late Robert W. Jensen, A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live? During our House of Theological Studies session during Lent, Chris Green and my friend Jason Micheli, who began Crackers & Grape Juice, referenced Jensen several times. I had not heard of or read anything by Jensen.
The book is what amounts to transcribed lectures to first and second-year students at Princeton. This led me to pick up Jensen’s Story and Promise. The title has become the series title for our Eastertide series at Snow Hill. I am looking forward to working with the Eastertide scriptures. I wrote about it for our church this week here.
No, we are not moving. But I hope I am moving toward being more active on Substack as I wind down the website. That may mean that to help me remain accountable to my own goals and any expectations you have as a subscriber, I may turn on the subscription feature. If you would like to support what I am doing here and find it helpful, you are welcome to subscribe when that time comes. For now, everyone has full access.
Thank you for reading and for your encouragement along the way.