Stuart has announced the closing of his blog as from this week. His reasons are characteristically straightforward. Blogging gets the ideas out there for whoever wants to engage, discuss and think. But ideas and convictions though born from mind and heart, require to be lived, practised, embodied in a life. In other words ideas are for trying out; convictions are only convincing when those who hold them experiment and implement what is thought and said. Convictions are finally articulated and explained when they are demonstrated and bear witness to their truth not by argument only, but by embodiment in a life truly lived.
So I understand why Stuart moves on from his blog. But I have also appreciated the sharp perceptions, the radical questions, the passionate edge, the dissenting voice, the genuinely baptist (small b) spirit (small s:) in which Stuart has developed much of his thinking. I hope he will occasionally guest here on this blog when the word from the barricades can still occasionally be spoken, whether shouted or whispered.
For now, thanks Stuart for several years of good natured cajoling towards a more radical discipleship, for much laughter, and for introducing me to blogging as a way of inviting discussion, exploring ideas, and having fun at no one's expense because fun should always be our gift to the other, to build up rather than diminish. Unless of course the fun is satire, the laughter a judgement, and the joke on the powers that be who use power at the expense of others. At which point......
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