This Blog

I haven’t posted anything on this blog for a while, partly because I have recently taken up a course of further study and that has been taking my energy in getting to grips with what it involves, but largely because after a year of writing and some questioning with colleagues about how best to communicate through social media, etc. I feel it is time for some re-evaluation.

There is the question of whether a blog is the best way to communicate or if some other social media would be better.  I have been encouraged, more than I might have expected from some quarters, that this is worth-while; but whilst some posts get a lot of hits – some predictably because they mention something/somebody well known, some for reasons I can’t quite fathom – others get no more than a handful.  The latter, I think, say something worthwhile, otherwise I wouldn’t bother writing them but it does make one question the use of the time needed.

So, is a blog the best way to communicate?  If it is, there is the question of style and content.  If it continues, I will do my best to make the style more accessible.  One or two people have said they find it difficult to understand.  If that isn’t just about style then what about the content?  I have tried to pitch it as a thoughtful and sometimes challenging comment on current economic and related subjects from a Christian perspective.  It doesn’t aim to be academic because that’s not where I’m coming from and not where I think the audience is but maybe it still assumes a level of understanding of economics or other subjects that not everyone is comfortable with.

I’d be interested in comments, both constructive criticism and well as any encouragement.  The aim is to inform and stimulate thought and perhaps debate across the area of a Christian approach to economic matters, which is what I’m most interested in, but also the wider issues connected with my work with Faith at Work in Worcestershire and now the Committee for Agriculture and Rural Life.  I look forward with interest to any feedback, either through the comment button on the blog site or by email, etc.