Blog Necromancer!
I’m back! And hopefully for good this time.
Truth be told, my writer’s itch gets scratched through weekly homily composition. Writing a homily is a lot like blogging: they both center around fact-analysis in an attempt to relate something the writer deems important enough for the audience to hear. Plus, giving a homily is more immediately gratifying, as reactions to what you say prove whether or not you’ve missed the mark.
Homiletics makes it difficult to blog. Before all, blogging should be fun, and one should have some latitude to write on whatever he or she chooses. But as a priest, I feel like my blog should have theological content above all; and yet, at the end of the day I don’t feel like writing about theology, since I spend all day surrounded by it either in private study, prayer, ministry, or homiletics.
So, as a sort of Advent resolution, I’ve resolved to just plain write on whatever. Writing is good for me, no matter how it comes or where it goes.
At any rate, I am — once again — back.
BONUS! BONUS! BONUS! ARTWORK! ARTWORK! ARTWORK!
Prints available upon request.
Yeah, but how many times can Lucy jerk the football away from Charlie Brown?
Still, Josh, I appreciate your explanation. I was beginning to be afraid I might be responsible for your absence from your blog. After all, I said to myself, put yourself in his shoes. Here you are in the seminary and this wacko Protestant beatnik shows up on your blog, and you think ‘Well, cool!” After all, you’re in the seminary, you’re tasting some unusual intellectual approaches, having some brain-storming with your buddies about esoteric ideas. Maybe in the seminary there’s room for an occasional wack job.
But then the day of reckoning finally arrives, and you emerge as an authentic, genuine priest of the church. And who shows up as your biggest cyber-fan? The same old Protestant from down in Redneck Hicksville with his heretical ideas. Under those circumstances I can see how a priest might start avoiding his blog and considering giving the Internet an exorcism.
But think about how I feel. When I ran across your blog, I thought it was one of the most interesting points of view on the Internet. Where am I going to find a blog that takes religion seriously, has a background in philosophy, and thinks highly of Cthulhu, the Second Amendment, and an appreciation for The Great Labowski? What’s that, you say? Look around in Protestant circles? LOL Try talking about Cthulhu with your average Baptist minister, and you’re more likely to get him to redeem you from the hands of Satan. So I guess I’m stuck with you, Josh, if you would just post something once in a while.
Anyway, you want theology? I’ll give you theology. How about a little editorial comment on the statement made by Christ Matthews (a Catholic) about Newt Gingrich (also a Catholic) in reference to the Manichean argument (Didn’t we solve this with the Nicene Creed?):
“Do you believe in it, do you believe that we’re all a mixed bag, or do you believe that there’s some people like Newt Gingrich who personify one side of this Manichean struggle in our life?Do you believe in it, do you believe that we’re all a mixed bag, or do you believe that there’s some people like Newt Gingrich who personify one side of this Manichean struggle in our life?”
Sweet! I always enjoy reading your posts, so it will be great to catch you on the blog scene more often. Do you think you could post your homilies occasionally?