In May 2004 I began blogging. It was a great way to wrestle with some changes happening in my psyche and perfect outlet to express novus lumen thoughts and opinions.

The blog was called novus•lumen.

Novus Lumen is a combination of two Latin words: novus, which means “new” or “fresh”; and lumen, meaning “understanding” or “clearness”. After deciding it was high time to stake my claim in the worldwide blogosphere, I had one minor detail to arrange: I had to conjur up a name that would accurately and appropriately describe what I was experiencing in life as a 25 year old missionary on Capitol Hill who was emerging through new territory (terra nova) experientially, professionally, personally, and spiritually.

Then I was forced to shut it down 6-months later. But two years after I began this project, the same is true for my life as a 27 year old soon-to-be seminary student: I am still emerging through terra nova.

As I have tried to communicate to people what I am experiencing at this particular stage in my life, the word re-understanding continues to enter into my explanation. I think I am in a period of re-understanding several things: myself, my life course, the world and culture around me, theology, God, and what it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ in 21st century America. I am continuing to experience a “new understanding” or “fresh clearness” about my life and God’s reality, and this blog will once again be a chronicle of that newness.

Once I return to GR MI, I will once again write and create in that space, and I invite you to join in the conversation.

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