Dear Friends,
If you're reading this, it means you have successfully navigated through the cumbersome address of the parish's website and are interested in what I might have to say here.
The other month, Emily and I went back to Wisconsin, where I was a seminarian at Nashotah House. Apparently, the latest scandal there had been that several students had been less than discreet in their blogs, and were attracting the wrong kind of attention to themselves and to the House. While we were talking about that, someone said that they couldn't imagine what would be the point of posting such documents on the web. Surely, he said, the idea of keeping a journal, spiritual or otherwise, should be a private thing, not an opportunity to publish rantings and incoherent rambling for all the world to read.
The discussion gave me an idea, and it struck me that perhaps there was a good use for the clergy weblog. Where else can you find more rantings and incoherent rambling than in the parish newsletter's monthly 'Message from the Rector'?
As long as I have been in parish ministry, I have always written such a message when the bulletin goes out, and I've always vaguely wondered what kind of people read what I've written, and what they think of it when they do. But the thought struck me that for those who enjoy that kind of thing, my regular 'Message from the Priest-in-Charge,' posted on the Parish website, could just as easily be turned into a running blog, where people could come back time after time, and have an archive of all the pearls of wisdom that get posted, despite myself.
I recognize that I face a slightly different audience online than in the traditional hard-copy message, so these posts will often vary in style from the regular bulletin messages. So comment on what you read! Help me set the direction you want this to go in -- ask questions, try to bait me, do anything to help me make this an entertaining and interesting 'ramble' to read.
I promise to keep posting if you keep reading, and keep commenting.
In Christ,
J+
Friday, June 17, 2005
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