2025: blogging
This year I published a total of forty-two blog posts (at least before I started doing my 2025 recaps), exactly half of which were nothing more than links to pieces published elsewhere. In other words, across twelve months I wrote a whopping number of twenty-one “real” posts for this blog, by far the fewest since re-starting it in the summer of 2017, when I moved to Abilene to start teaching.
By comparison, I published eighty-three blog posts in 2024, seventy in 2023, and just over one hundred in 2022. That’s a continuous, steady, sizable drop!
Moreover, I blogged a respectable eight times between January and March, then—besides a single post on July 3—I did not write up a new “real” blog post (=more than a link to an essay published elsewhere) until the week of Thanksgiving. That post is called: “Why I’ve Not Been Blogging.”
In short, between April and November this blog nearly died, y’all.
Since Thanksgiving, however, I’ve posted more than a dozen times, and I feel like I’ve gotten my groove back. Part of that is because my bottleneck of commitments and deadlines finally opened up, and I gained some more time for unpaid, purposeless, free-form writing. Part of it, too, is that I recommitted myself to blogging, even if not a soul on earth reads it. It’s just good for me to get some of these half-baked ideas out of my head, if not out into other heads, whether they’re about movies or authors or tech or church. As I’ve said many times, the micro blog is for micro blogging (not tweeting) and essays and reviews are for long-form, “official” writing, which leaves this space for mezzo blogging. I just need to give it twenty minutes a day and it’ll take care of itself.
I hope and expect more of the same in 2026. Below you’ll find links to what little I did write here in the past twelve months.
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Theology
Technology
Reading, Writing, Academia
TV & Film
