My New Project Post-Theological Journal

 Hi! I want to announce my new writing project - "Reading the Bible A.S.A.P* (As Simply as Possible) Which may not Always be Simple And Never Simplistic."

This is the culmination of decades of reading, reflection, and writing on various parts of the issue titled above. It's not an elegant title, I grant you, but it lays out what I believe remains near the center of what troubles the church in the western world in an increasingly more intense way: our relation to scripture and to God through scripture.

I will try to go at this work with a no-holds-barred approach. I will try and clearly state my assumptions and faith commitments, do my best not to avoid, side-step, or diminish issues or problems, take advantage of what I take to be the best scholarship on these matters, in ways I hope will provoke readers to think or rethink important matters to their life and faith.

I am not and have never been an academic. I am a pastor. One who calling has been to try and keep one foot in the pew and one in the academy in an effort to help and encourage the church to engage scripture more deeply and responsibly. That remains my goal in this project. 

I have a lot to say about these matters, opinions aplenty. And if you don't like these, I have plenty more. I have developed a perspective on all this from which I write. I hope to convince readers that it is a way to approach and read scripture that has merit and is worth considering. 

I will publish each section here as I finish it. The serial will, I hope, encourage more to read it than if I published it whole. I will do that in some fashion, probably as an ebook, when finished (should God grant the time, strength, and health to complete it).  The first post will appear shortly and I hope to issue at least one post a week till it is done.

To all readers, then, I say read what I write, pray over it, and may so doing find you better able to sense, hear, and respond to God's claim and call on your life in your time and place.

In Christ,

Lee Wyatt

P.S. I am using an old blog I haven't used in a while. I'm drawn to issue this material under the warning of Walker Percy's text that serves as its title. That's worth considering as a preface to reading my text.