Hello all:
I just recently returned from a ten day trip to Missouri. What a trip. I celebrated my Grandmother’s 90th birthday, met an aunt and uncle and a bunch of cousins (from all parts of the family) for the first time, and met all three of my siblings for the first time (I’m adopted).
I also worshipped with a very conservative Church of Christ with my Grandmother, while one of my cousins told me all about how the church down the road where my Aunt and Uncle attend just isn’t “quite right” because they have a praise team. What fun.
Through it all, God showed me every day, several times a day, how I have it good and how my life could be much worse. Praise God for his grace!
On another note, it has been bothering me for quite some time how I am not blogging very often anymore. I am working on developing a series or two to attempt to fix that problem.
There are two main reasons I am not blogging as much: I have things to write about, but I don’t write them down fast enough and then I forgget them, and some of the subjects I want to write about aren’t related to the Restoration Movement.
There are many topics that I want to explore with writing that really don’t have anything to do with our movement. Many of them are spurred on by my orientation as a restorationist, but otherwise, there is little to no connect. In many ways, I’m not sure that I want to blog about those topics here because I have dedicated this blog to examining Churches of Christ and the Restoration Movement at large, but also because I am not sure that all of my audience, both real and potential, would appreciate these other topics nearly as much as they do this one.
So… I am contemplating erecting a second blog….or maybe even keeping this blog up in archive form, but no longer posting to it and instead turning to a second blog to persue my other writing interests. I’d love to hear your opinion on what I should do.
-Clarke
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December 19th, 2007 at 6:00
Hi Clarke,
Good to hear from you again. On the blogging question, I occasionally stray from the center of my theme on Christian Unity. I’ve posted about such topics as bible software, a series on Romans, profanity (btw one of the most popular aritcles on my site!), occasional personal news, and other slightly-off-topic posts. I’m currently starting a series on the book of 1 Corinthians. So it’s not 100% narrowly focused on unity but I try not to go too far from that for very long.
December 19th, 2007 at 9:59
i would like to see you do a blog on how the early restoration folk felt about a Christian’s relation to the state. Should we be involved in political matters? no? If not, why? If so, must every political view we hold be determined by scripture? or is it some sort of “neutral” area? (Have you ever heard of theonomy among the reformed groups?)
December 19th, 2007 at 19:30
Good to hear from you again.
I’d say it’s your blog, do what you want with it. A little diversity never hurt. Heck, I’ve posted everything from my quiet time journal to car videos to high school pranks on mine.
December 19th, 2007 at 23:58
Hello everyone:
Thanks for your thoughts. Maybe I will just stick to writing here.
Guy, thank you for the suggestion…that is a great topic and I’ll take a swing at it soon… one of the great things about that one is that there were two major points of view, and in the mainline Churches one point of view won the day.
I actually got into an argument with my father over Thanksgiving over this very issue, and that Sunday I taught a class where we ended up talking about war, and so of course those things are closely related.
-Clarke
December 20th, 2007 at 6:20
i’ve always heard that among northern church of Christ there was a trend toward a very anabaptist notion of limited-to-none state involvement (pascifism, no voting, etc.) because the kingdom is “not of this world” and so forth. but i’ve never chased that down in research though.