“Tested Faith” explores issues of religion, social justice, politics and ecology. Seriously. Honestly. No poop jokes, and no quasi-poetic rambles about God only knows what like in my other blog. I aim to be serious. Honest.
I also intend, miraculously, to do this without coming across as stuffy, preachy, and/or pretentious, and to do so with the wide-open eyes of unabashed naivety which I do occasionally enjoy. If nothing else, it should be fun to watch me flounder.
As for me: I currently work with a homeless ministry in central Missouri, and live in Columbia with Jen, my wife, and two pups. We’re Episcopalian, mostly. Jen and I met in Vancouver, BC, where we both got graduate degrees in Christian Studies at Regent College. Now she’s getting a masters in social work, and I’m contemplating a PhD in religious studies. That is, if the crashing economy doesn’t have us all chewing shoe leather by then.
Anyway, that’s at least two years down the road. Meanwhile, my goal in this blog is simply this: to quarantine off my own faith and activist inclinations, and address them to one single, enormous question: How, as Christians, are we to stick it to the man?
-NLF
