My name is Paul, and I'm new to this blogging endeavor. I figure that I have read enough of these blogs and it's time to give it a shot. I have sat silently observing enough of them to know that REAL conversation can occur through this medium. (Besides, it's my birthday today, and I have dedicated each year to do something that challenges me and my sensibilities.)

I do have an agenda with this site, and I thought I'd be upfront with y'all before we get any further. I'm passionate about a Jew from ancient Nazareth who died and is risen from the grave. And I think that this story of this person we call JESUS ought to be told to the whole world.

But before you click on your "back" button and navigate yourself away from this page because you weren't too interested in reading more RIGHT-eous propaganda, please bear with me.

It's my intention to be open to conversation, live into mystery, and fuss with the stuff of life. I'm a pastor in my "day" job, and the operating definition that guides what I do and who I am in that role is: one who lives life deliberately and tells others about it theologically. I pray that what happens on these pages has true existential cash value for us all, and that the reign of God is better served by it.

My agenda and objectives for this blog all deal with Christian faith...what it means to have faithFULL conversation, live faithFULLy, and engage this world not through a primary naivete (as Paul Ricouer shows us) but to have EyeS wIDe oPeN. I believe we ought to look at this world through a "Jesus Lens."

inJoy,
Paul M.