Every new year seems to provide the occasion for taking stock and charting future blogging hopes and dreams. This last year saw my most productive blogging month ever (March 2009=112 posts). Though on the whole I was disappointed by the last year of blogging. Not nearly as much work on Karl Barth and theological interpretation as I had hoped for. I think I also spent too much time on cultural and political commentary than I would like. However the high points of the blogging year involved more study on mission, Christology, and Paul.
For this coming year I am hoping to refocus this blog on the distinctly theological. Topics I want to read and write on this year are the usual suspects you’ve all grown to love or love to hate: Barth, Yoder, ecclesiology, mission, apocalyptic, and Pauline and Johannine theology. I’m also planning to leave aside — at least on this blog — cultural and political critique/commentary. Stuff along these lines that catches my interest will now be flagged elsewhere.
Some new stuff I’m hoping to write on this year includes Will Campbell, J. Louis Martyn, and Paul Minear. Here’s hoping for a good year.
Good luck.
I’ll be the first to say that I’ll be missing your cultural/political critique/commentary. It seems like something you enjoy writing about and others enjoy reading.
Unfortunately I feel like its become too much of a guilty pleasure this last year that’s come at the cost of more substantive posts.
There will still be plenty of stuff on political theology and such, though.
And theological politics, I hope.
Gandalf says: You will find your voice in time.
I’ll be reading. Good luck keeping out the cultural and political critique :)
Out of curiousity, how close did you come to reaching your goal of 50 posts on theological interpretation for 2009?
Pretty close I think, though they didn’t all end up in the “theological interpretation” category.
Any chance on a similar poll this year? I would definitely like to hear your thoughts on some specific thinkers/topics.