So it begins...

I'd been kicking around the idea of having a blog for a while when I stumbled across this article encouraging pastors to blog. There is no shortage of pastors' blogs, nor a lack of Lutheran pastors' blogs. So I intend this blog to serve primarily as an outlet for my thoughts. I'm not narcissistic enough to think that anyone more than my mom and my wife will read this. But if it allows a place for discussion that didn't fit in the 45 minutes of Sunday morning Bible Class, great. If it gives me a forum to recommend (or warn against) a book or journal article to any of my parishioners, cool. If it's just some hollow space in the Internet stratosphere where I can cull ideas from thoughts, still good.