Everyday Causerie

Hello friends,

I just wanted to give you an update: my wife Tabitha and I have decided to start our own family blog, focused on food and our home and our everyday experiences of life. This is something we had been talking about doing for a while, and we finally pulled this trigger.

I’m not entirely sure what this means for this space; I may still post here, focusing my more religious stuff here. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about what it is I’m trying to get out of this blog, and I’m still not entirely sure.

For now, I’d encourage you to pop over to Everyday Causerie, and subscribe there! Today, I posted a reflection on food and Lent. Here’s a taste:

God’s kingdom looks like bread for the hungry, the homeless housed, the naked covered, the afflicted comforted and healed. Then, says the prophet, “your light shall break forth like dawn!” That is the coming of Easter, a time of resurrection. In Lent, we remember our own impending death, our own mortality and sin, but we also remember that death does not get the last word, that injustice and inhumanity and suffering does not win, but instead the light does, God’s love does! We fast during Lent to remember those who are forced into hunger all year long, and the longing in our bellies for nourishment should also awaken in us a righteous anger towards the powers and structures and ideas that keep people hungry. It should drive us to not merely wait meekly for that dawn, but to realize we have work to do in the meantime.

We have mouths to feed.

https://everdaycauserie.wordpress.com/2020/02/26/we-have-mouths-to-feed-a-lenten-reflection/

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I posted a couple of weeks ago about my foray into the world of newsletters, and I jut wanted to drop another note: my first newsletter went out last night!

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Justin’s Writing Pad: My new email newsletter!

Something all the cool kids are doing these days is email newsletters. I have a handful I subscribe to and read, and I really like the format. So, I’ve decided to do my own!

So, what will set it apart from this blog? Good question.

I envision this blog holding thought out, “completed” pieces, for lack of a better term. What I post here I what, in my head, feels like published work, things I’ve thought about and planned and taken time to write and edit.

The newsletter, on the other hand, I hope to use more as a place to quickly put together things I’m thinking about, things I’ve read that I don’t have a ton to say something about, and “status update” type reports on things I’m reading, watching, listening to, experiencing etc. Alan Jacobs, whose “Snakes and Ladders” newsletter is one of my favorite things, does this in each of his, and I love it. So, with credit to him, I’m going to borrow the idea for myself.

I’ll also usually link to what I write here, as I intend to do a weekly newsletter. It can be a place to aggregate what’s happening here.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then please subscribe by clicking here!