One of the things that I’ve noticed after a few years of blogging is that it sometimes threatens to absorb all of one’s regular writing. Since I’m no longer a professional student, I’m not regularly writing things of essay length, and believe it or not, I’m not automatically inclined to draft monographs in my spare time. I still read as much as possible, of course. And I blog about it. But that tends to be the bulk of my writing, at least in terms of theological writing.
Now, on the one hand this is fine and good. There are actually a great many virtues to the kind of writing that theological blogging is. But, there is clearly something to be said for regular writing that is less as hoc and more extensive in scope.
But the real point is that blogging lacks patience. That’s probably one of the main reasons I like it. The payoff–such as it is–is pretty immediate. The writing of theological essays, in contrast to blogging, has a better chance of teaching us the sort of patience that is necessary to the task of Christian theology.
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