I was really quite ready to give up on this thing. Blogging is a discipline that I’ve not been quick to pick up.
But alas, I thought I would give it one more try before I make this site obsolete.
I’ve caught the blogging bug to some degree by joining with some friends to start a reading and blogging group to get through the entirety of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics in two years. And I’ve enjoyed the rhythm of blogging every day, and getting to hear some reflections back on my thoughts. Having enjoyed regular blogging, though perhaps acting too precipitously in my enthusiasm, I thought I would try to do this again.
Alongside the Barth reading group, I have been reflecting a lot lately on the way systematic theology does, or, as is more often the case, does not engage with the social. The teaching and scholarship of folks like J. Kameron Carter, Willie Jennings, Amy Laura Hall, and others has instilled in me a sense of concern with theological discourse that fails to acknowledge or engage with the social realities that are not only coterminous with it, but that shape and are shaped by it.
Thus, this blog. I hope for this to be a place to reflect on “systematics and the social.”
