Disclaimer

Daniel Kirk has one of the best disclaimer’s concerning the nature of a blog. His statements capture my exact sentiments, so in offering a disclaimer of this blog I borrow his expression with only minor modification:

What is a blog?

A blog is a “web log”. It’s a running commentary of things I’m reading, thinking, processing.

I’m a fourth year Biblical Studies graduate student.

Put this together and you’ve got a strange situation. My guild exists for the purpose of high-level, carefully developed, carefully articulated, fully digested assessment of data and arguments. A blog entry is an impression, a first thought, a work in progress.

This means that a blog is a strange genre for a Biblical Studies student. We need to continue the task of cultivating a new category for “blog,” one that assumes that the author’s thought is a work in progress, one that anticipates change, adaptation and growth of ideas expressed in public.

A work in progress–that’s what my blog is. It’s more a testimony of what’s going on in my mind today than what I think should be thought by all people in all times and places.

Sometimes the thoughts I post here goes on to be my very belief, other times I make some assertions where I need to think through the doctrinal implications of my statements, or that just may need to be nuanced/worded more precisely.