The aim of asburyblog for the fall semester is to bring together a small group of people who write about their spiritual journeys through the season of seminary. This is an experiment. We are not sure how it will go. What we are seeking to learn, explore, and reveal is how a community of Seminary Students can cultivate the practices of holy conversation and reflection on a weblog.

We are hoping that these reflections reveal seminary life from the classroom, dorm room, chapel, cafeteria, and hall way, expressing each one’s formation in relationship to God and community. As such, this is intended to be a formative means, and each blogger has covenanted to cultivate an ethic of conversation found in Philippians 2:1-11

1 If therefore there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion, 2 make my joy complete by being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, united in spirit, intent on one purpose. 3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others. 5 Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore also God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those who are in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.

While these folks will be our primary bloggers during the semester, everyone is asked to join in the comments. I look forward to this journey,

Shawn