Friends,
It’s been some time since I have presented to you a new blog. Now the time has come for it.
I introduce to you here A Passion for the Possible, the new blog of Jonathan Searle, son of Roy Searle, one of the heads of Northumbria Community. Here is how the author introduces his project:
Dear Colleagues and Friends,
I have chosen today – 31 August, the Feast Day of St Aidan, my favourite Northumbrian saint – to ‘officially’ launch my new website - http://apassionforthepossible.wordpress.com/
The aim of the website is to initiate a conversation about the meaning and place of hope in contemporary human life and society. I seek to do this by reflecting theologically on various personal experiences, hopefully not in a self-indulgent way but in the hope that what I write will have a larger application and be interesting, useful and hopefully sometimes even entertaining to anyone who visits or stumbles across the site.
For instance, my latest post contains a reflection on my almost entirely negative experience of living in Moscow, my forlorn battle with the bureaucratic nonsense that is the Russian immigration authority and the lessons I learned from the whole thing. Moreover, German friends will find me reflecting on the German national character and some of the great natural landmarks of Germany such as the Rhine.
I write to you now in particular because I need your help to get the website up and running. I am writing to a select group of friends and colleagues (including you) because I recognise from our previous correspondence and conversations that you might be able to help or at least that you might be interested in the website. Indeed, I have chosen to launch the website partly as a result of the encouragement I have received from many of you to do so.
In particular, I need your help and suggestions for how to improve it and/or if you think it’s a project worth pursuing. I’d be especially grateful if you could offer suggestions, pithy statements or constructive criticism. My intention is that the posts should become a series of ‘open texts’ or dialogues, not a closed or finished list of sermons or lectures. Statements of constructive criticism and respectful disagreement would be especially welcome.
I can’t make any commitments about how often I will write but I intend to make fairly regular additions, if I think that there is something to say that is worth writing about.
As I glance at my email list, I notice that there are a few folk that I haven’t seen for quite a while. In this case, I hope that the website might provide an opportunity for us to renew contact. Please make contact – I’d be delighted to hear from you.
Thanks for your help and please don’t forget to send your comments, either publicly on the blog or privately by email.
Please check out the new website at: http://apassionforthepossible.wordpress.com/
Sincere thanks and warm good wishes on the Feast Day of St Aidan,
Joshua Searle
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Joshua T. Searle
School of English
Trinity College Dublin
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