Extending my adventures
For some time now, I’ve kept a religion blog that I’ve used as a launching pad for my many views on theology, church politics, and the what-not. But I’ve come to a new place in my life, and the old blog doesn’t fit. It’s too flat. My world is much less duo-tone and much more colorful. My interests have morphed from theology to culture and politics and real life. This new blog is my effort at putting some of these other thoughts to “paper”.
It’s not that theology is less important to me. It’s just that major changes having thrust me from the inner sanctum of the church office into the marketplace. And from this point of view, the theology that seemed so BIG in my old world is irrelevant to 90 of the rest of the world. People arent’ talking evangelical theology. They are talking the environment, politics, sports, reality TV, movies, and much more. It is in these arenas that we must engage and bring God back into the conversation.
I’ve possessed a biblical theology. I now seek to develop a more refined “practical theology.” Practical theology is exactly that – practical. It’s the application of our biblical theology to real life. It’s time for Christians to move out. To engage. To be nice and play well with others. We may not like that secular culture has become so… well… secular. But it is what it is. The main of life isn’t just lived out on Church Street anymore. The drama of live plays itself out on Market Street and Main Street and Wall Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. It’s these other places I wish to land for a while, enjoy some good joe, and – with my theological blocks in place – enter the larger conversation.
But don’t expect this to be a blog where I find some religious nugget in every secular event I observe. I’m hoping just to enjoy talking politics, sports, culture and what-not. And when spirituality informs these things in a primary way to these things, I’ll speak to it. But I won’t force it. I think it is time to get in the game… sometimes just for fun… no agenda. And when God reveals the capital A – agenda – then I pray I’ll awake to its presence.
David – 2/24/07
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