Archive for February 2009
A New Blogging Venture
I am currently blogging at the …&Following blog.
This project was started at the beginning of February to run concurrently with a class I’m co-teaching at church. We’re working our way through a discussion of N. T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope. The blog will help me organize my thoughts before each week’s class as well as act as a record for where we’ve been.
I am running a series on the blog I call Resurrection Songs. I’m featuring songs that have something to do with the afterlife or the resurrection. It’s a fun way to concentrate on how resurrection has inspired songwriters and poets through the ages.
I am, however, running out of songs. I need your help. If anyone’s still out there, navigate to the …&Following site and leave any suggestions you might have for a featured song. I’ll be eternally grateful. Thanks.
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Keeping a Reading Schedule During Lent
This year I’ll be again reading from the lectionary during Lent.
Why do I do this? Isn’t this weird behavior, even for an ex-Catholic?
Maybe. Maybe not.
Sometimes I think reading from the lectionary every day gives one the impression of moving through the text too quickly. Keeping that kind of pace through the entire year can lead to a kind of burn-out.
But there are times – Advent and Lent specifically – when moving quickly to get a wide view is beneficial. I’ll still meditate over the one passage for a week at a time. I will, however, also add to my routine extra reading from the lectionary. The lectionary is only a device I use to my reading a bit of structure.
