to tell the truth - new blogging venture (sort of)
Comments(1) So as you all may remember, sometime in the last two months I began to become unsatisfied with the direction that this blog was going. To make a long story short, I felt that the name of the blog didn’t match the content and quite frankly I was just burned out on blogging. All that is to say that I’ve spent some time thinking through what really interests me and what I’d really like to write about and I’m ready to unveil my new blog: truth to tell.
As I say in the first post,
“Truth to tell” comes from the title of a book by one of my favorite thinkers, Lesslie Newbigin: Truth to Tell: The Gospel as Public Truth. My choosing of “Truth to tell” as a title for this blog is based on Newbigin’s conviction (which I share) that the Church of Jesus Christ (in all its various expressions) must be about the business of speaking truth to the world. The truth which the church offers, however, is not some cold, arrogant, unchanging truth but, rather, a truth that must “wrap the whole world in the Father’s love.” I want to use this blog to facilitate discussion that will allow us to explore this Truth together.
It’s that simple. Now I know what you’re thinking - why start something new for that? Well, sometimes you just need a break and a new start. So that’s what this is. I hope you’ll read my new blog and become part of the conversation there. Be looking for about a post a week (maybe more, maybe less) and don’t be too shy to interact. As I say in the final paragraph,
Finally, If there’s anything on this site that interests you, please talk about it - either on here or to your friends. Ultimately, I think that friendship is the end (telos) of the Christian life. Christians are called in various ways to learn the meaning of friendship - with God and with one another. The things I write about in this space are meant to encourage such friendship. If anything you read here is disingenuous, mean-spirited, or generally harmful to the cultivation of Holy Friendships, please feel free to call me out on it. After all, friends tell each other the truth - and that’s what this blog is all about.
