When we first started this blog in 2010, I wrote a lot. Three times a week was quite normal, and although that is not quite at Tim Challies’s level of content creation, it was something I found both enjoyable and (to the extent that I can tell) fruitful. My children were up very early in the morning, and I would often use that time to write about whatever theological, pastoral or missional issues took my fancy, and post them before anyone else woke up.

That continued until around 2016, when my output here dropped off a cliff because of three things which happened at the same time. One is that I took a new role as Teaching Pastor at King’s Church London, and the combination of the new role, and representing Newfrontiers more, made it feel more high stakes (and often less wise) to sound off all the time about whatever I was thinking. Another is that I started trying to read a hundred books a year, much of which happened in the early morning slot that I would otherwise have used for blogging. And the third is that I finished my PhD, which meant I was able to start writing books again (hooray), but this in turn meant that I had very limited creative capacity for shorter, often spontaneous comments on immediate issues here (boo); it also removed me from the academic environment that had sparked a lot of my posts on New Testament studies and such. So besides updates on what I was reading, announcements of the THINK conference, and the occasional longer article, I pretty much stopped posting anything.

Two of those three things are still true. I am still at King’s London, and I am still writing books. But I am still hopeful that I will be able to re-engage here a bit, not least because I have now finished drafting my next two books: one on happiness, and one on Deuteronomy (of which more in due course). I am also excited about launching next year’s THINK conference, and talking about what I’m reading again, and writing about some issues I haven’t given time to for a while. And as I say, when the blog disappeared for the summer, I missed it.

All of which is to say that you may be hearing more from me in 2026-27. We shall see.