I am approaching a bit of a milestone. Sometime within the next week, I will be making my 2000th post to this blog. That seems like a good time for a change.
Starting on Monday, the focus of The Reformed Pastor will change significantly. That’s in part because I’m going to be taking the analysis of current events and denominational happenings to a new location. Monday, I join the stable of writers at a revamped Stand Firm, which will now be subtitled “Faith Among the Ruins.” I will be joining a team of talented writers whose hope is to become a sort of First Things on the Web for Anglicans and Protestants, a lofty goal indeed that I believe the others, if not me, are fully capable of achieving.
Here, meanwhile, I will heading off in a very different direction. I will, in effect, be writing an idiosyncratic commentary on the New Testament. No Greek, no critical apparatus, nothing fancy. What I’m going to do instead is take the passage divisions in the English Standard Bible, and do a daily (more or less) commentary on them in order. So, on Monday, I’ll begin with the Gospel of Matthew, and discuss the passage headed, “The Genealogy of Jesus Christ.” And so on through the New Testament, though I may vary the order in which I do the books. In any case, I’ll be doing something that can be a spiritual discipline for both me and my readers, if they choose to stick with me, and perhaps for others looking for something more spiritually edifying than what I’ve done in the past.
If you’d like more information about the changes at Stand Firm, and where I might fit in, check out Greg Griffith’s post here. And if you want to see The Reformed Pastor transformed, continue to check in here.
March 16, 2012 at 11:07 am
So this will turn into a John Calvin style lectio continua?
March 16, 2012 at 11:12 am
Yes, something like that, though my approach to the commentary will be different from Calvin’s, I suspect.
March 16, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Will check you out both places. Keep up the good work. (BTW, do you really think Anglicans have a shot at regaining Biblical Christianity?)
March 16, 2012 at 4:01 pm
Thanks, Mark. In answer to your question: the Episcopal Church is a dead letter. There is no chance, short of divine intervention on the scale of the Exodus, that it will ever again be a Christian organization. Anglicanism, on the other hand, in the form of the Anglican Church in North America and others, is alive and well, and has much to contribute to the church catholic.
March 16, 2012 at 5:19 pm
I’ll keep reading you here, but I won’t follow you to Stand Firm. A lot of the fun is commenting, and Sarah Hey and Matt Kennedy banned me for disagreeing with their politics, and for calling Sarah on the nasty way she treats people. All the best.