Alright.

So the new resolution to write more is not going well.

It started out well enough, but the problem arose when I got into the research… I fell down a research hole of papal bulls and encyclicals that are quite fascinating, but kept leading me from one thing to read to the next.

I already know how to research–that’s not the task.

I’m still working on the AI Encyclical and do plan to take it up once more of the research has been done. In the meantime, I’ve decided to write on something that won’t require research! At least not much because the great body of it has already been done.

In light of the nation’s 250th anniversary and a somewhat similar anniversary of their own founding, the good folks at St. John’s Lafayette Square invited me at the beginning of May to assist them with a Communion Office from the 1789 Book of Common Prayer and to deliver some remarks afterward to put it into its proper context.

While I usually give talks from fully-written manuscripts, this one exists more in notes on PowerPoint slides and is begging to be put into a more formal shape. Thus, I hope to get back into the habit of regular writing and posting with the equivalent of the out-of-shape runner’s run/walk to ease them (me) back in.

So, expect to see the first of these appearing before too long.