{"id":79494,"date":"2022-01-25T02:08:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/?p=79494"},"modified":"2022-01-24T19:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:11:16","slug":"ch-ch-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/anxiousbench\/2022\/01\/ch-ch-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch-Ch-Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I\u2019ll write a more traditional post later in the week, but today let me put on my \u201cblogmeister\u201d cap and update you all on a few things happening here at\u00a0The Anxious Bench<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A Fond Farewell to Kristin Du Mez<\/h3>\n

As she announced here last Thursday<\/a>, Kristin Du Mez is moving on, in order to focus on following up on the success of her bestselling book, Jesus and John Wayne<\/em><\/a>. While I certainly hope to bring her back from time to time for guest posts, she\u2019ll no longer be writing a monthly Thursday post for us.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be sad no longer to share a blogging roster with Kristin. We both joined The Anxious Bench\u00a0<\/em>in June 2016, and for five years I\u2019ve rarely found myself so inspired and challenged \u2014 in equal measures \u2014 by a colleague.<\/p>\n

Her example has challenged me to think in new, often less comfortable ways about the nature of evangelicalism, and Christianity more broadly, and to devote more of my own teaching and writing attention to the experience of women and the construction of gender. As I wrote this month<\/a> in the\u00a0Following Jesus\u00a0<\/em>conversation, Kristin\u2019s work exemplifies how \u2014 in Wes Granberg-Michaelson\u2019s words<\/a> \u2014 \u201cthe Reformed tradition refuses to see the world through na\u00efve, superficial lens, and confronts the empirical evidence of its harsh realities.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, I\u2019m inspired by Kristin\u2019s willingness to ask hard questions, to propose sometimes unpopular answers, and to engage in conversation with those who agree and disagree with her conclusions. I trust she\u2019s right that \u201cwhat was once done might also be undone,\u201d but her own experience demonstrates that such \u201cundoing\u201d requires enormous time, energy, patience, and perseverance.<\/p>\n

Whether not writing for Anxious Bench\u00a0<\/em>gives her more time to research and write the sequel to J&JW or just allows her a weekly break to rest and relax, I\u2019m happy to send her forth with our thanks and blessing.<\/p>\n

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CC BY 2.0 Conal Gallagher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Reduced Schedule<\/h3>\n

Of course, between losing Kristin and \u2014 last fall \u2014 John Turner<\/a>, we\u2019re left with a significant hole in our blogging schedule. We talked about finding ways to replace John and Kristin, but ultimately decided that it would be best \u2014 given everyone\u2019s pandemic-exacerbated weariness, if nothing else \u2014 to simply scale back our schedule for a few months and let one weekday lie mostly fallow.<\/p>\n

So for the next six months at least, we\u2019re going to shift to a Monday-Thursday schedule. Mondays and Wednesdays will be untouched: Agnes, Melissa, Philip, and Tal will continue to share the first post each week, while Andrea, Beth, David, and Nadja continue to constitute our Wednesday rotation. Dan will switch his monthly posts from Thursday to Tuesday, allowing me to take one week off each month. Then Philip will move his Friday posts up one day, to Thursdays.<\/p>\n

For this winter and spring, that leaves Friday open\u2026 but not always unoccupied. I\u2019m still happy to hear pitches<\/a> for guest posts that might end our weeks, and our regular contributors might occasionally add special posts on Fridays. (I\u2019ll be back at the end of this week, for example, to report on a long-delayed conference that will interest some of our readers.)<\/p>\n

Turning Ten\u2026<\/h3>\n

And I\u2019m also hoping to use some of those Fridays to gear up for a big moment in the life of this blog: this spring marks the tenth birthday of The Anxious Bench<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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The Anxious Bench<\/em> as it looked in May 2012\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll do more to celebrate that milestone once it\u2019s here, but between now and then, I\u2019m hoping to convince at least a few of our contributors to spend Fridays looking back at earlier posts.<\/p>\n

In any event, knowing that we\u2019re near the end of our first decade makes me less, well, anxious about losing contributors the caliber of Kristin and John. Ten years in, the list of \u201cformer AB writers<\/a>\u201d now has half a dozen names, yet each of those losses has been accompanied by \u2014 or ultimately made room for \u2014 the addition of other scholars who have added their own expertise, perspective, and unique style to our mix. So I look forward to seeing who joins us over our second decade.<\/p>\n

As always, thanks to you all for reading! I don\u2019t know if the first weeks of 2022 have seen as much change in your life as in ours, but I hope that the New Year has brought you new blessings and new opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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