It’s happened three times now this semester: I’ve been somewhere (a lecture, a volleyball game, a plane), and I’ve unsuspectingly sat next to strangers who then identified themselves as readers of blogs I have written on the Reformed Journal.
And each time, I’ve been first absolutely surprised and then, humbled and grateful to meet people who make this little endeavor work. We could not do it without readers.
When I teach writing, I ask my students to be cognizant of audience, but to be honest, it’s not a lesson I have learned very well myself. To ask someone to deliberately take time to read something feels like a big ask, an imposition. After all, who has time to read my small musings?
And yet, how blessed I feel that people do take time to read not only my contributions, but those of all of the writers who appear in the Reformed Journal. What a delight to have faces to fill the blank space I feel my words tumble into. It feels like a privilege to hang out with such smart, thoughtful people—and that’s on both sides of the keyboard.
There are too few spaces anymore where faithful thinking comes in contact with so many different topics from so many different perspectives, but all richly Reformed in their engagement with culture.
So I just want to take this opportunity to say thank you for the ways you support us: by reading, by encouraging. By your time and by your kind attention. And today, I hope you’ll consider supporting us with whatever financial gift makes sense to you.
And I’m so honored to have my forthcoming book as one paired with Kyle’s Meyaard-Schaap’s as part of the But Wait, There’s More deal.
It’ll be such a treat to meet even more of you next year!
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