Just a quick update on a few things going on here, written partly in apology for not yet resuming my often-promised return to regular posting on the blog:
- My current book project is progressing, but it calls for more work in the editing/revision stage than I had foreseen, so at my publisher's bidding I'm focusing most of my writing attention on that at the moment. The hope is still to be able to release it sometime this year, so I will keep you all apprised.
- I have a few academic presentations upcoming as well, with a bit of in-country travel, and since travel always sparks my itch to write, I hope it will result in a few good essays here. This coming weekend I'll be traveling with my family to my old alma mater, Houghton University, to present lectures based on my previous book (regarding the historical missiology of the early church). And later this spring, I'm off to Chicago to present a paper at the North American Patristics conference. I hadn't planned on attending this conference at all, but when the call to papers came out and I saw that they were specifically looking for papers on early church fathers and birds (yes, really)...well, you'll agree that I didn't have a choice in the matter; I had to pitch a paper proposal.
- In the absence of daily (or even weekly) offerings on the blog, please feel free to check out my sermon podcasts on my church's website (calaisbaptist.org). I'm doing a series based on the "Glimpses of Grace" studies I began writing here a few years ago, and the response has been tremendous.
- Once this year's book project is off my plate, one of my great hopes is to return to my Evangeliad and perhaps even pick up the pace (it's still possible for me to complete it in less than a decade from its launch in 2017, so that seems a worthy goal). Blessings to you all, longsuffering friends, and many thanks for your kind support of my wildly-ranging writing projects over the years.