The internet is a time machine.

A friend's post on Facebook today about Kierkegaard reminded me of the title of this blog, and thus, this blog.

I just read all the posts and comments.  I'm amazed I was even able to stay engaged long enough to have several posts on a blog.  I started a blog for the church as a way to follow up on sermons, and I was able to post maybe 2 or 3 times before forgetting about it all together - that seems to be the problem with virtual communities, you don't pass them in the hallway at work, meet up at the coffee machine, or see them at home, and thus, they are easy to forgot about.

I am posting this 6 years, (6 years!) after my last post here.  That is why I say in the title of this post that the internet is a time machine.  By reading my entries and the comments I am transported back to my graduate school experience at Vanderbilt.  Exciting times.  Now as I intend to apply to D.Min programs I look forward to perhaps reigniting some of the intellectual spark I felt in graduate school, and the spiritual energy that accompanied it.  Now I have the advantage of being able to study and maintain a full-time job as a pastor, hopefully marrying the essential (work/salary/not uprooting entire family to enroll in PhD program halfway across the country and to still likely end up being a pastor anyways) with the fantastic (studying, readying, writing about practical theology/psychology/pastoral counseling/homiletics).

So long, blog.  It's back to work for 2013 Craig.  Send some curiosity and energy this way some time.