After blogging for 4 years and using basically the same design for the last 2, I thought it was time to upgrade, and also re-focus.

It has been quite some time since I’ve blogged regularly. Some of it has been because of my schedule and demanding graduate school year. Mostly, however, I’ve grow weary and tiresome of constantly updating and churning stuff out. While I love communicating (especially writing) I’ve wondered if I should continue “inking” my ruminations on God, the world, theology, culture, etc…I’ve also begun a deliberate process of figuring out what in my life should stay, and what should go.

While contemplating staying at/leaving blogging I re-read my about page. This sentence struck me:

“I am experiencing a new, fresh clearness and understanding and now I return to this space to reflect upon, muse about, and chronicle this change and emergence. At novus•lumen I write within the tension of spirituality and culture, politics and theology, existing and emerging forms of church, the Kingdom of God and America, modern and postmodern thought, and the gritty drama that is my pilgrim story.”

Funny thing is, I’m still experiencing! Maybe it’s the nature of being in seminary or maybe it’s the the nature of the Christian life to constantly (re)discover, (re)evaluate, (re)understand. But I’ve realized I’m still there, searching, exploring, and “experiencing a new, fresh clearness and understanding.”

Still in novus•lumen territory.

So here’s to another 4 years with a bright, shinny new ruminating space. My hope is to begin posting three posts per week that reflect on my life in the tension of an emerging faith Jesus and postmodern America. My thoughts don’t necessarily center on emergent or the emerging church, though I have plenty to speak into THAT conversation. My thoughts won’t all be on Jesus or the Church, either. What I do want to write out of is a heart that is searching, probing, deconstructing, and reconstructing.

As before, open handed I come, before you, God, and the world. I come to give, because I think I have something to say about a lot of things, but I offer those sayings in humility. And I come to receive, because I know that true clearness and understanding occurs in community and conversation.

I hope you join the conversation and find community as we explore this crazy thing called the Way of Christ.

-jeremy