Keeping house
Where are we going?
Friends,
When I started writing this blog (I’m 41 years old, I’m not going to call this something other than a blog. Besides, I don’t have any readers here who don’t remember what a blog is anyway, I’m pretty sure.), it functioned mainly as an outlet for my hopes, fears, frustrations, and reflections on dealing with cancer. Despite presently being in remission, I’ll be in recovery for quite a while. My body will never be the same as it was before.
People are amazed when I tell them I’m hoping to return to some form of work in the next few weeks. I’ll be starting with teaching an online course, which I’ve mentioned before, on World Religions & Human Spirituality, for Northeastern Seminary. I’m excited to dive into this course again; I’ve switched up the main text I use for it, but it feels fantastic to teach a course you have a pretty good handle on already.
I’m hoping to jump back into my part-time church work as well. And I’m being ordained to the priesthood on June 15. My chaplaincy work will probably re-start this summer as we sort some things out with timing and my immune system.
As I hopefully am able to restart all this paid work, I wanted to take a moment to thank those of you who have financially contributed to my writing here. I’m indefinitely pausing payments as a way to signal that I’m intending to get back to other things that take up more of my time to help provide for my family. Please know that your support has helped us bridge this bizarre year and a half of uncertainty, and I am extremely grateful. But of course I’m also extremely grateful for all of you here.
I need to figure out what exactly I want this space to be for now, so there will likely be an interregnum. I imagine I’m going to have some things to say when my course starts up; I have been consistently impressed by my students’ grappling with faiths foreign to them, and hopefully I can share some of that with you in the coming weeks.
Until then, I’m gonna get back to watching Bluey with my 2-year-old.
Also: Happy Easter. Christ is risen, and I guess I am too.
