Why Another Blog?

This will be my second theological blog. The first, Locke and the Keys, is simply an echo chamber for my own thoughts on political theology and economics. Perhaps it is helpful for my future in writing, but it is not beneficial to the world in any real sense. It might be vanity, but I do want to benefit the world in some way. I spent three years in seminary, working in ministry positions in churches, prisons, hospitals, and homeless shelters, and I had a sense that the work I was doing benefitted God and His kingdom. Now I've moved to Illinois so that my wife can get a degree in mental health counseling from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. I am certain that God has called us here, but I am conscious of the fact that I have no ministry, no mission, and hardly any potential for that to change in the near future. I live on a seminary campus, but I am not a student. This isolates me both from the world and from my immediate neighbors. Most of the work I do is manual labor. While it is good for the body and the soul, my mind and heart lie fallow unless I intentionally put them to work. So, that is what I plan to do. I will use this blog, potentially another echo chamber, to focus my heart and my mind, sharing what I know and am learning about God in hopes that someone, somewhere might benefit. I pray for the possibility, even if I am only writing that I might benefit.