The Musings blog is one year old this month, and we thought we’d take a moment both to look back at our first year and also to look forward to the coming year for Musings. We also wanted to touch base with our original goals for this blog. We hope that you will help us in this evaluation by completing this short survey. Click here for the Musings Survey
Your feedback will be helpful in evaluating what did and did not work this past year and in considering new directions we might take with Musings for the coming year.
When Musings began a year ago we wanted it to “be a place to consider thought-provoking, evocative, sometimes polemical but not overtly political, writings, quotes, ideas, and poetry on the Christian life in all its facets: spiritual, religious, ethical, and practical.” We think we’ve done a pretty good job of that. Postings on changes in ordination standards, the Belhar confession, missional ecclesiology, the Tucson shootings, the Incarnation, nurturing our youth in the faith, what it means to be the church at 900 Jordan, Lenten devotionals by members and staff, Holy Week scripture and meditations, the emerging church movement, Advent meditations, poetry, art, photographs, video, the Bangladesh pilgrimage, and more have appeared on Musings.
We also hoped that Musings might become an online forum for discussion of matters posted on the blog as a way to broaden our individual perspectives and as a byproduct of those discussions, to foster a sense of community among the participants in Musings. That has proven to be a hard nut to crack and something we will continue to work on.
In subsequent posts this month, we’ll also be taking a broader look at social media in general and how it has been used to share our faith, as individuals, and to tell the story of our church. We will also examine some of the ways other churches are using social media.
So, please complete the survey. If you have additional thoughts about the blog, please speak to Lisa Schrott, Frank Dodson, or Pen Peery. Thanks.
