Returning and Reimagining

It's been over a year and a half since I've posted here. That's mostly because I've been on a spiritual journey of a different sort and could never find the right words to make a blog post worthy of a space that has billed itself in the past as being "at the intersection of religion and social change."

The religious climate in my country has been dark in the last year as the evangelical right has taken the last steps toward idolatry and blasphemy in its support of the radical right wing of the political spectrum. In many ways, it has finally drawn a line in the sand that allows us to demarcate the separation between those who follow Christ and those who follow their own self-interest. We can finally point to the things like The Nashville Statement and the false prophet Franklin Graham and say, "This is not Christianity of Jesus but the work of idolators and charlatans."

Yet even though this clear separation makes it easier to point out the evil that has infection Christianity, it makes it that much harder to make a case for why anyone should want to call themselves Christian. It makes it that much more difficult to proclaim why the Jesus I know, the Jesus who defines my faith, is so different from the one these religious frauds proclaim.

It has been this internal and external struggle in light of our political and religious climate that has kept me away from this space for so long. 

But in this new year, I am returning to writing for a simple purpose: processing the great atrocities of our time and finding my place in them.

It begins with reimagining what this space is for. As times change and the nature of my writing changes, this blog becomes less about the intersection of religion and social change than a sounding board for what it means to call myself a Christian in today's world. In essence, it is becoming a space for redefining what it means to be a person of faith in today's world.

I hope to be more consistent in posting here as I add intentional spiritual practices to my life as well as responding more vocally to evils being perpetrated by the current presidential administration and the radical christian right-wing. 

We are at a crossroads in global Christianity. And I hope to begin working out what paths are available to us here. All I know at present is that we cannot go back, nor can we blindly go forward. But we must go forward.