vulgar homiletics and lowbrow theology
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John Petty of Progressive Involvement puts it better than I ever could: Calvin’s comeback vastly overrated.
I have a backlog of 1000 church and religion blogs that I haven’t read in months. I just got to the point where I find discussions of church and what’s wrong with it tiresome. And apart from a few exceptions, most of the theologizing I was reading also left me tired. I get much more of a charge from looking at art blogs or reading about innovative people doing cool things.
The stuff I want to read isn’t out there. It’s in me. I’ve just got to get it out.
On the recommendation of a friend, I’ve been reading The Artist’s Way and practicing the discipline of writing three pages every morning. I’ve tried journaling before, but couldn’t stick with it. This time, for some reason, it’s different. This one discipline alone has been feeding something in me that was hungry. One of the effects has been that I do not feel compelled to post to my weblog as much.
The problem with keeping a weblog, for me, is that it satisfies my need to write but it doesn’t give me complete access to my creative brain. The ever-present Internal Editor, which embodies the fear that someone might actually read this stuff, prevents me from simply following an idea wherever it leads me. That makes it easy to get blocked, and difficult to muster the energy to write until there is sufficient passion behind an idea to break past the Editor. I think this is true for lots of people, which is why so many blogs are full of either pictures of somebody’s cat or political rants.
Anyway, I’ll quite possibly clean house here, shortly. So, for all six of you that drop by occasionally, don’t be alarmed if you can’t see this page for a few days in the near future. 
I spent part of my vacation rearranging this site. I hope you like the new look. It’s a more scaled-down design borrowed from Matthew James Taylor’s excellent design site. I’ve been wanting to streamline things for a while now, and this template fit the bill.
There are still some broken links here and there. The rss feed was acting up earlier, but I think I’ve tamed it now. I’ve moved most of my bloggy stuff (blogroll, links, etc.) to the other things section.
I’m also updating my Technorati Profile.
