Following is the text of an email I just sent out. I’d be happy to receive any responses here, too.<\/p>\n
\nSo, I was walking home for lunch and passed a nicely coiffed woman
\nsitting patiently in her large SUV in front of a certain private
\nschool. I assume she was waiting for her (only) child to exit the
\nbuilding and enter the safe confines of the gas-guzzler. Not that I’m
\nbeing judgemental or anything. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nAnyway, as I passed by, I wondered what her response would be if Jesus
\nknocked on her window and asked why she was driving such a big
\nautomobile. I imagined her reciting the usual litany of space and
\nsafety reasons. Then I imagined Jesus pulling a socratic (yeah, I
\njust coined it) and walking her through some questions that guided her
\ninto considering how her life, perhaps, was structured to make her
\nbelieve that she needed that car.<\/p>\nBy this time, I was home and I enjoyed my reheated Chinese food from
\nlast night. While I was eating, I searched around the web for
\nreferences to ‘right living.’ There are some, but not much. This
\nmade me think that I sure would like to read other folks’ thoughts
\nabout ‘right living’ and how I wished there was some kind of community
\nweblog where people could write stuff and respond in kind, etc. Then
\nI thought about how easy it would be to make something like that, but
\nthe tough part would be finding high quality contributors.<\/p>\nSo you see where I’m going here. It’s pretty easy to make a
\nstraight-up weblog where many people can write about a finely tuned
\ntopic. The bigger problem is finding people who are willing to write
\n(even occasionally) and think about the topic. If such a place
\nexisted on the web, I’m relatively confident that it would attract a
\nsizable readership over time.<\/p>\nSo here’s the pitch: are any of you interesting in sharing the burden
\nof writing about ‘right living’ on the web? I am not suggesting any
\nparticular political agenda here–I’m just interested in smart people
\nwriting about their thoughts on ‘right living’, how it is manifested
\nin their lives, what it means to them, how they struggle with it, how
\nit ties to their faith, and so on. If you aren’t interested, do you
\nknow anyone who might be? How ’bout passing this along to them? If
\nthere is sufficient interest in such a project, I’d be happy to make
\nthe place exist–and to contribute in my own inimitable way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following is the text of an email I just sent out. I’d be happy to receive any responses here, too. So, I was walking home for lunch and passed a nicely coiffed woman sitting patiently in her large SUV in front of a certain private school. I assume she was waiting for her (only) child […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-3N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}