After Ranty

Just realized I still have this blog/account after it got merged into my gmail account. Browsing over what was left here, as sort of artifacts to my heart's wandering in the past, its like a time-warped mirror. I see myself in the posts. I feel the passions that typed what was shared here (and a ton of what ultimately wasn't). In many ways those passions have matured with age. I'd say they had subsided, but that makes it sound like I don't care any more or have plunged into apathy. That's not the case. I've just seen angst and rant grow into compassion and dialogue on the topics of church and truth. I'd have guessed other trajectories from where I started and how I build. I've not moved on my staunch commitment to Biblical authority or abandoned concepts of absolute truth. I've just read a lot more books, met a lot more people and somewhere along the way glimpsed Christ more fully in various pages and faces. You can't encounter Christ unchanged or woe to you if you can. I still care about the church, but as I reflect over what led me to start this blog and post on it, my care has grown from angst to love. I love the church. I still have this blog. It's titled paradigmSHIFT as though that is what the Church needs. I've found that it was what I needed more.