A few years ago, I deleted everything that I’d posted previously. I had become tired of writing online and dealing with the mild anxiety fuelled by thinking aloud. I also embarked on postgraduate studies which soon absorbed any compulsion to write.
I began this blog by talking about preaching. However, I soon became distracted by Presbytery planning, which admittedly distracted and continues to consume the entire Church of Scotland. In relation to Presbytery Planning, some of the angst and fallout, that I anticipated, appears to have been realised. But writing about such things didn’t provide solace or encouragement. Instead, it became a ‘slough of despond’.
Over the last couple of years I have continued to wonder, what preaching is, what church is, and where the Church of Scotland is heading. Meantime, considerable effort has gone into turning around the fortunes of the Kirk. Among calls for congregational mergers, missional programmes and investment in all that is new, I still wonder where preaching features in our future and whether there is scope for renewal here too?
The Foolishness of Preaching 