ken wilson online

So it’s been a couple of weeks blogging. A few impressions. I’m more hopeful that this is valuable (to me) than I first thought. It does have the effect of keeping a journal, though I can’t say that it’s nearly as candid as a journal. But it does help me to be a little more attentive or mindful of my own life, and it has the effect helping me to focus on things I want to focus on. The categories feature, for example: I have to really think twice before committing to a category and ask whether it’s a passing enthusiasm or something I want to pay attention to over the next year, say. Read the rest of this entry »

The beginning of the blogspel of ken wilson. And my question, of myself, to myself, is whether and to what extent candor is possible.  See, I’m a pastor.  It’s a job that will knock all the edges off you if you’re not careful. It’s a job that will make you excessively cautious if you’re not careful, until you become one noxiously inoffensive lump.  Don’t tell anyone who you voted for, for example.  Watch your language.  Keep a lid on it.  So this will be interesting, if only to myself.