A New Direction

I feel like this blog has really fallen into something of a rut. It's also departed substantially from my original vision.

The reason I started this blog was to give myself a public outlet through which I could share my religious views. Because I have a professional and moral obligation to withhold my more unorthodox views from my students, and a pragmatic interest in keeping them from most of my colleagues, some of my family, and almost all of the people at my church, the idea of an anonymous blog where I could vent heterodoxy was an attractive possibility. But I've never really done that. I've said little on this blog that I couldn't say in my classroom (that may be a slight exaggeration).

The description of this blog (which is no longer visible, but used to be under the title) indicated that I was going to write about things from a "radically progressive Catholic perspective." I've come to realise that instead of writing about random things from such a perspective, what I really need to do is write about the perspective itself. What is "radically progressive" Catholicism? That is going to be my new focus. I already write about this extensively in a journal, but now I'm going to do it here instead.

There are already a lot of blogs out there doing what I've been doing on this one. I find a lot of self-described "progressive Catholics" have similar views on social issues and things like that, and my doing that here is just another drop in the bucket. So enough already!