Returning, Again

Nearly 20 years ago I started this blog, in the days before Facebook or even MySpace. I used this blog to reflect and share in what was – prior to Facebook – a small but thriving Lutheran blogosphere. In that space I made my first online friends that I had never met in real life … some of whom I still haven’t met in real life but whom I still consider friends and colleagues.

The blog has come and gone, but I’ve maintained the URL. As I struggle with whether or how to continue using social media – particularly Facebook, the one social media platform on which I’ve been quite active and built quite an online community – I will return to this space at least weekly with reflections on Christian Living that centers God’s promise of justice, our Lord’s invitation to self-emptying love, and the Spirit’s movement that creates life-giving community. This blog ain’t fancy and I’m certainly not sophisticated in all the blogging tools … maybe I’ll get there, maybe I won’t. Thanks for giving this a try, anyway.

Later this week or early next I’ll publish my first new post (or posts) which will reflect on the US/Mexico Border, immigration, and how our government’s current policies will only create – not address – problems for immigrants and for the United States.

I write this post from the Borderlands, a region I’ve visited three times in the past 18 months. On these visits I’ve volunteered with humanitarian organizations, met with their staff and directors, spoken and prayed with immigrants, and studied Scripture in light of the realities of human suffering and hope. I come to this topic with 30 years of perspective – I was a Latin American Studies major in college and a Latino Ministry concentration student in seminary. I’ve been fortunate to travel overseas and to learn from many people abroad and in the United States who have shared their culture, faith, hopes, and dreams with me. I’ve been extraordinarily blessed.

Now I pray that the words I share here – and the actions that accompany them – can be a blessing to others. Please subscribe, and check back here soon. Thank you.