I’ve been thinking for a while about being more intentional about how best to share things I find online and random thoughts and ideas that occur to me.

Years ago I used this blog for that sort of thing. Then I started working on Episcopal Café and that became my default place to post. Then came Social Media and especially Twitter. Twitter was perfect for sharing links and short posts, and when I left the staff of Episcopal Café, that was the primary site I used for sharing neat and interesting things. For the last ten years, this has been where I’ve posted sermons and “letters” and not much else.

But X (formerly known as Twitter) is broken now, and I’m not optimistic that it’s going to return to what it once was (at least for my purposes.) I have accounts on Mastodon instances, BlueSky, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. But I’m leery of investing much time or effort into any of those as it’s not clear as of Spring 2025 which one (if any) will replace what Twitter once was.

It right to me to return to my roots. This is my site and I manage it myself. I can post something here, and it will automatically be shared to other networks, sent by email to subscribers, shared via RSS, and I’ve even set this blog up as its own Mastodon instance. (That’s so, well, meta.)

Why now? I’m continuing my reading and thinking about Artificial Intelligence and how it will impact our lives and particularly the Church. I serve on the AI Task Force with a group of thoughtful people and they’ve been amazing conversation partners. But sometimes, I find that I need to write things out to figure out what I’m thinking. The discipline of making the words in a post make sense, helps me to organize my thoughts, and usually leads me to deeper ones. I’m planning to post on the topic of Artificial Intelligence more regularly, and I’ll try to remember to label those posts so that you can either follow them more easily, or avoid them if you’d prefer.

If you want to ask a question or follow up on something, come on over to Entangled States and have at it. I might see questions or comments that appear on other networks, but I’m not going to spend a lot of time seeking them out. And, consider this fair warning to the 2000 subscribers by email (and the 5000 subscribers on other platforms), your inbox may be seeing more of me. Congratulations, or condolences, about that, depending on where you stand on reading my nattering.

I don’t have any idea what the posting schedule will be like. That will depend on my what my schedule looks like on a day-by-day basis. And maybe I’ll be able to invite an additional author or editor to help out over the next year or so – which could increase the volume. My best guess is: I’ll probably post something every few days. If it gets overwhelming for you, please let me know, and I can help you find a better way to get the info I’m posting without you feeling like I’m spamming you.

One last thing. I have no interest in monetizing anything I post here. This is filling a personal need for me and it’s a ministry. So, enjoy!