Archive Entry #90: March 13, 1987
This entry might be one of the most courageous newsletter columns I’ve ever written. I had been here less than two years. I was still in my twenties. Yet there I was writing about obsession with sex. For the setting in which I wrote this piece, it was a courageous piece.... Except, not for me!
From my earliest days in ministry I wanted people to know that I didn’t conform to pastor stereotypes. So I refused to wear robes, I slouched with casual posture when I visited people in their homes, and I talked about subjects people didn’t expect to hear from someone in my position. Everything I did was authentically me, but much of it had ulterior motives. Today’s column from May 1987 surely intended to tell my readers that I was not a pastor they could easily pigeonhole.
And one other note about today’s entry: After ten months and 90 entries, the Archive has finally arrived at the place where every remaining entry will close out one of the calendar years of my time here. Stay tuned.
