Looking Back
1. Books I read and reviewed this year.
- I read some but unfortunately not all of Waking Up White.
- I read Adam and the Genome.
- Reality Is Not What It Seems
- I read most of Der Fuhrer.
- I skim/read The Culture Map.
- I skim/read Cultural Intelligence.
- I skimmed Philip Jenkins' The Next Christendom.
- I read Jane Patterson's Keeping the Feast and had a book review published on it.
- I read some but unfortunately not all of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.
- I read and reviewed The Shack.
- I skimmed/read some of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
- Finished my first novel last week, 70 pages: Gabriel's Diary: The Incarnation. Maybe more to come.
- Self-published my notes on my time as Dean of Wesley Seminary: Six Years a Dean: The Founding of Wesley Seminary.
- I finished a book that was six years late on Hebrews. Turned it in. We'll see if they will still publish it.
- I did explanatory notes on all of Romans. May self-publish with my own translation of Romans.
- One of my most popular posts had 95 theses for the church today, on the 500th anniversary of the Wittenberg Door.
- I finished a series on world history. Got quite far on science and math.
- I did quite a few posts in my Seminary in a Nutshell series on the contexts of a minister.
- I finished a Seminary in a Nutshell series on leadership.
- I became Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry officially in July. Some thoughts. I think it's a job for either 1) people who are ambitious, 2) people who are servants, or often 3) people who like administration. I'm not feeling particularly much like 1 or 3 these days.
- I preached two or three times this year, spoke at the Festival of Preaching. Got sick and so didn't get to deliver this one. Here's the audio of my chapel sermon.
1. After 13 years of blogging, I almost stopped blogging in September. It would be hard to express how discouraging I have found this past year on multiple levels. I love sharing ideas. I blog because I love sharing ideas. It is no coincidence that I am a preacher/teacher. God often calls us to what we love or we find that we love what God calls us to.
But this year has knocked the wind out of my sails. And of course I've been extremely busy.
So I don't plan on resuming daily posts. Maybe one or two a week. I'll probably do explanatory notes on Hebrews and the General Epistles as I teach that class. My Monday reading group is doing a book called The Evangelicals. Might post some summaries of it. Who knows?
2. I still have the inductive Bible study book to finish. Must get it finished this year. I might do more installments of the Gabriel series. Plenty of books I'd love to write but who cares. Book writing is for the famous, the scholar, and the big-mouthed.
3. Here are my science and math goals.
4. How about a goal of 6 miles a week of running, at least until it warms up? Then 15 miles a week.
Happy New Year!
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