This is my first entry to the all-new PastoralEpistles.com. I'm one of the new contributors / collaborators / editors(?) for the site, and this is my Christmas list for PastoralEpistles.com.
What would I like to see happen/happening at this site?
- I'd like for us to continue to be a clearing house / repository for PE info, and to provide bibliographical "heads-up!" for those studying the PE;
- I'd like for the blogs to become a coffee-table conversation between scholars / pastors / scholar-pastors who are studying, preaching, and writing on the PE.
What am I concerned about as I join this venture?
- I don't want this site to become a one-trick site, dominated by discussions over authorship that generate lots of heat and smoke but little light. If there's something new to say, fine. If it's just polemics and insults, I hope it will be left unsaid.
- I know how busy I am, and guess that other scholar-pastors have similar schedules and demands on their time. I want this website and the various resources here to be helpful and rewarding enough to deserve a slice of time from these busy, overworked people (including myself.)
- At least in my mind, this thing is still kind of amorphous, an exercize in open-source scholarship. How are we (how is Rick?) going to organize the information, blogs, etc., to make everything accessible and usable without becoming so flat as to have no value for the researcher? How will we (how is Rick?) going to control what is / isn't posted here, etc., to maintain order (a good, Clementine value!) without being restrictive? There is no virtue in anarchy, IMHO.
Anyway. Glad to be here, hoping to have many fruitful discussions in the near future.
Posted by Perry L. Stepp