I am 43 years old now and I keep being surprised at how much things change over time. And How much they stay the same. We grow up, get married, have kids and try to follow Jesus. But in 1988, when my bride and I loaded up the wood-paneled station wagon pulling the U-Haul to to go west, I would’ve never guessed that my journey would take me to a small town in North Alabama with five kids, including one with Down Syndrome. I would’ve never guessed that nearly 20 years later I would be LESS ASSURED, LESS DOGMATIC, that I would no longer call myself a conservative, much less a republican. That I would no longer call myself an evangelical, much less a reformed Calvinist. I am in such a different place now than I was then. And the changes keep coming.

Hence, the rocks in my head. This is a good time to confess that I totally purloined the idea for this blog from one of my favorite bloggers, Molly at Adventures in mercy. On her very first post she said

i am writing because i have an inner urge to polish the rocks rolling around in my head.

There are so many things I am wondering about and questioning. Wondering about and questioning stuff is almost always a good thing. Maybe I should delete the “almost”.

Here is a short list of the rocks in my head (which will surely change over time):

• Politics
• Christ and the Church
• Mere Christianity
• Women’s roles in Society, the Family and Church