I just finished a week of daily blogging. Over the last seven days, I posted once a day:
- Where’s Greg Worshipping? 8+ Congregations in 3 States
- My Experiences with 14 UCC Congregations
- Midlife & MiD Life: A 9th Update
- My Religious Traditions Are Missing 8 Million People!
- The ELCA is Missing 4 Million People!
- The PC(USA) is Missing 2.6 Million People!
- The UCC is Missing 1.3 Million People!
This routine was quite different from my norm. For the last several years I’ve averaged writing just over one blog post a week.
Pushing myself out of comfortable routine to the discipline of daily writing was harder than I expected. A couple of the posts took longer to write than I’d prefer to admit. And, yet, the overall experience was positive.
The first half of the week focused on a series of four posts about how the religious traditions I’ve been a part of have declined in membership more significantly than is often reported when placed in the context of population growth. Adjusted for population growth those three denominations would have 8 million more people today than they do if they had retained the market share they had just over 30 years ago.
The second half of the week I wrote about more personal matters sharing my recent experiences. I started with reflections on seeking ordination following my recent birthday then moved on to a longer form reflection on my experience in 14 congregations in this denomination before concluding with my experiences in 8 congregations affiliated with multiple denominations so far in 2023.
This week’s content was not pre-planned but is consistent with what I’ve written about over the years: matters of faith that matter. These have always been and likely always will be a blend of recent research or news alongside my own lived experience.
Daily Blogging – From a Week to 1,000 Days
The last time I blogged for more than a week straight was over a decade ago. In fact, nearly half of my total blog posts were written during a time when I blogged on a daily basis.
As I reached major milestones, I reflected on the experience
- What I Learned from Writing 100 posts in 100 days (February 2011)
- Reflecting on 365 Days of Daily Blogging (October 2011)
- Celebrating 2 Years of Daily Blogging (October 2012)
- 1,000 Days of Daily Blogging (July 2013)
So What?
I enjoyed blogging on a daily basis for a week, but don’t plan to continue on to 100 days much less to 1,000.
You can expect new content at least once a week for the foreseeable future.
