Shuck and Jive is Eight!

Eight years ago today I started Shuck and Jive.    Here is the first post.  My first post with content was this one in which I asked what the Christian faith would be like if we found the body of Jesus.   Some of the comments were so nasty, I remember deleting them.  That was my introduction to the world of blogging.  I have been controversial ever since.

It feels like a lifetime ago.  Of course from November 2012 to just recently Shuck and Jive was on ice.   I am starting it again as I tentatively put one foot in front of the other, "learning to walk in the dark" to borrow a metaphor from Barbara Brown Taylor's latest book.   I recorded an interview with Barbara for Religion For Life.   It will air sometime in July.  She is as gracious and thoughtful in an interview as she is in print.


Independence Day is a good day to announce that I have been elected to the Coordinating Team of Presbyterian Voices for Justice.


I am honored to be on this team.   PV4J is a marriage between the Witherspoon Society and Voices of Sophia.




I used to post a lot from Witherspoon (along with pics of Reese Witherspoon).  Guess I kinda have a crush.





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