05/23/2025 – Introducing a New “Inklings” Type Group to the blog. Stay tuned.
I recall about five years ago, nearing retirement from corporate, my bride of 34 years asked me: “Share with me Jimmy a retirement dream that you haven’t shared with me yet.” I replied: “I would like to start a small inklings type group.”
With a smile, she snapped right back with: “Well, good luck with that!” Here I am; I don’t give up that easy.
For those of you who are not familiar with the original “inklings” group:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Inklings
Note how their group fellowship could very well have influenced the reknowned Christian worldview Literature works of C.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis more than we realize, just to name two of the eight members over the 30s and the 40s.
In the four year history of this blog, we have already mimicked the Inklings. My brother Lenny and I read and fellowshipped together on James Michener’s book : “The Source”. (“When two are gathered in His name”) You will find the posts under the category “Books”. I am going to move it as a subcategory under “The New Inklings group”
If you are not familiar with “The Source”, I would advise going to Amazon com and plug the book title under search.
But check out this N.Y. Times “praise” review, of all sources:
“Fascinating . . . stunning . . . [a] wonderful rampage through history . . . Biblical history, as seen through the eyes of a professor who is puzzled, appalled, delighted, enriched and impoverished by the spectacle of a land where all men are archeologists.”—The New York Times
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So, after all that, I am not going to start with a post or series of posts on a literature work, but a fellowship issue on Christian Doctrine. With the proliferation of “dead” churches in America, what issues are foundationally critical in either your choice to join a church, or to “dust off your sandals” from a church that has lost its way? I would encourage our African brothers and sisters that read this blog weigh in with original posts and/or comments. It could stimulate our prayers for each other across the globe! Ideally, a blog is rich with fellowship dialogue back and forth, sometimes separated by time between posts, the beauty of a blog fellowship. The one body in Christ so desperately needs open loving constructive conflict. We can learn from each other, “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.”
Personally, I am going to start out with posts on : 1) Church government (Church Polity) , the three forms are: Episcopal; Presbyterian; and Congregational. How important is it to you? Stay tuned.
Always connected through prayer and by His grace,
Jimmy