After a brief hiatus the Journeyman Blog is back.

There’s a number of reasons why I took the blog down, some of which I’ll be talking about over the next little while.  Suffice to say, it needed a reboot.

It needed a reboot in terms of look and feel and operation.  You’ll notice there’s a lot of differences.  And please bear with me while I iron out the kinks.

But above all it needed a reboot in terms of content.  I was not happy with some of the directions it was going in: reactive rather than initiative, quick and shallow rather than being thoughtful and deep.  Now my family and I are in the midst of a transition season, the shape of which is uncertain.  Shaking off the detritus, this will be a place to think through the explorations and discoveries that are a necessary part of that.

You will notice, therefore, that a lot of the old content is gone.  It’s not absolutely gone.  I have an implemented a means of “expiring content” – which means while it won’t be available through the ordinary archive or search mechanisms.  But if you still have the original link to old content it will work; I don’t like to break the internet. All old content now comes with a caveat: this is a blog, my life has moved on, and my thoughts may have as well.

Thank you reading, and being an audience to a journey.  Feel free to share the sights and the sites with me and join me along the way for a bit.

Will.

 

I was very sad to see the following news on Peter Ould’s blog:

In a little over four weeks time, when the World Cup Competition has finished, I’ll be shutting down this website and pretty much withdrawing from any ministry outside of my parish in Canterbury…

It’s not that I don’t want to do the things that I’ve been doing, it’s just that I am no longer capable of resourcing them to the degree that they deserve (and that, frankly, I deserve).

This is it then folks. We’ll do some death and see what God resurrects (if anything). But for now, without any of the above changing, in a month’s time I’ll be out of here.

I totally understand Peter’s reasons for this of course.  Blogging is a fraught business, a combination of analytical thought, personal reflection, and public soul-baring.  Few people do it well (myself included amongst the many).  Peter is one of the few, and from all accounts he has done it sacrificially.

Union Flag Upside DownI first came across Peter’s writings when I first starting blogging in response to the 2008 Lambeth Conference.  His voice – emotionally honest, precisely articulated, fundamentally orthodox, post-gay, and of his generation – has been (and I hope will continue to be in some form) an invaluable resource for us all.

Here’s hoping that something new will rise up, because it will be a terrible terrible shame to have Peter’s voice muffled.

Over the weekend I get hit with 1000+ spam through the Q&A inputs on this blog.

This means, unfortunately, that I have had to implement the inconvenience of including a captcha input to prove the input is from a human.

It also means that if you have posted a question in the last four days I will not receive it as all new Q&A submissions for that period are being deleted.

Thanks,

W.

My friend Sally Oakley has started a blog at http://oakleythoughtso.blogspot.com/

She writes

A bit of a working title. It’s an idea James and I have had, to write (perhaps together?) about our experiences of depression. It sounds depressing, I know, but the idea would be to make it extremely practical and readable; something that anyone could pick up and get something out of. Anyone who would like to know more about depressive illness, parenting, marriage, and surviving all three. And all the bits in between.

Looking forward to it.

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