Moving day.

The beauty of wordpress is that you can import posts into another blog.

So this whole blog is now at http://www.willkinchlea.com/blog

Go there.

WK

Why I haven’t posted lately.

Patman the Pat recently accused me of being too busy with real life to post.  

Frankly, kind of true, as I spend on average 14 hours a day most days of the week working, schooling, and travelling.  Weekends are also generally a bust.  Those extra few precious hours at home? Non-working internet access.

I did want to mention one thing though: http://www.willkinchlea.com

I’ve decided to buy my own website domain and server space.  I’ve decided I need more customizability than what wordpress.com or blogspot.com or any other blogging site can offer.  I’ll be porting over stuff there soon, but for now, enjoy Tyndale University College’s 2nd Annual Summer Rock Paper Scissors Tournament as http://www.willkinchlea.com.

WK

My Lady Friend

Parting from the talk of spiritual discipline, I thought I’d talk about something that is much more pressing to me right now.  What is more pressing than my own spiritual discipline?  Well, my wedding, of course.

For the long-time readers of the blog, they may remember that for a time, I wrote a weekly column I called The Life of the Single Christian Male.  It was centered around being a young man who was discovering the joys (and hardships) of being ok with being single.  

Well, that ended a year ago last October(ish). I met a girl who was completely unlike me: mischievous, sly, super goal-oriented, and well-planned.  And hot.  Way hot.  I fell in love. Now we’re getting married.

We’ve been talking a lot about the future (as we should), mostly career/vocation-wise (though twins runs a fair bit in both family streams it seems – yikes), and I’m pretty sure we’ve decided on the ‘taking turns’ style of life-sharing. In the coming two years, we finish our (her) schooling.  After that, we’re going to do something cool, like work in an orphanage in Africa, if possible. Then, most likely, I’ll do a Master’s and get to work in a school somewhere so Christine can do what she wants, which at that point may be kids.  Not sure yet. Luckily, we’re pretty fluid.

From time to time, I’ll be referring to the Lady Friend/Wife/Girl/Her Royal Hotness in reflective posts about life, and I’m debating maybe even starting the Life of the Married Christian Male, if she lets me talk about that kind of stuff.  Point is, I felt that I should introduce this part of my life to the readers who don’t me personally.

This is Christine, and I love her.

 

 

WK

Spiritual Discipline

As I’m sure the majority of you know, I am the Student Council President for Tyndale University College 2008-09.  With this post comes some pretty heady stuff – I’m still coming to grips that I am actually representing 450-odd students to Administration, Faculty, Staff, and, to a lesser extent, the Community at large.  I don’t want to go into this lightly.

So, on top of the logistical work that needs to be done this summer (a.k.a lots of meetings), I will be preparing myself spiritually in the coming four months.  To do this, I’m going to need to adopt a few spiritual disciplines.

Being a Christian University, all Student Leadership members at Tyndale are to adopt 2 Spiritual Disciplines, one of which is observing Sabbath.  The other is one of our choosing.

Sabbath, for me, is way easy.  I know how to disconnect. I’m always trying to make those boundaries a reality in life and so keeping Sabbath for me might mean an extra step. A more literal Sabbath.  I’m going to think about that one, and see if I can’t come up with something later.

The other discipline I think I’m going to pursue is the use of icons within meditation. More on iconography and the meditation of icons later as well.

I think on the whole, I’ll be looking into all of them and trying them out on a weekly basis or something.  I’m really into the old stuff these days – traveling the old ways is my pursuit for the Summer. Come join me, you may learn something.

WK

Alright, time for another post about how to do this blog.

Everyone’s favourite part of a blog is when a blogger meta-blogs (blogs about his/her blogging) right?

Wrong.

Too bad.

I have found a new way to blog, which is quite different from when I used to blog.  I used to agonize about trying to get something out daily (which somehow worked, for awhile at least) and really fighting through the words a lot of the time.  Being a perfectionist, I’m not sure this was immensely healthy. And I think that’s why I took such a long hiatus from blogging over the last few years; it was just too draining.

But I have a new way.  I just write until I run out of idea, save the draft and go on with my day.  So far, this seems to be working for me – I’ve got 2 other posts that are almost ready to go public.  I’m liking it.  Plus, Scot McKnight does something similar and the more scholar-like I become, then perhaps the more scholarly I will become.

So this means sporadic updates for all!  Hooray! Huzzah!

Let’s get back to work people,

 

WK

 

New Attempt.

So I’ve decided that I really need to start writing again.  I’ve left my last blog for the following reasons:

1. I didn’t like the way it looked.
2. I didn’t like the ‘new’ way blogger worked.
3. My template was too cumbersome.
4. I’m at a totally different point in my life.
5. WordPress is way more hip than blogger/blogspot.

That’s why I left.  So what is going to be on this blog? I’m not sure.But as I begin branching back into the blogosphere and begin possibly extending into new media/web 2.0 venues, I’m going to need to a ‘homebase’, as it were.  So this is the new ‘home base’ for Will Kinchlea on the interwebs. So for some reading, I’ll post up some essays I’ve done to help get some content on this beast.  Enjoy. – WK