Brooklyn Lindsey is a pastor who currently oversees the middle school ministry at Highland Park Church in Lakeland, Florida and has recently written two books: Opposite Day: Upside-Down Questions to Keep Students Talking and Listening (2009) and Confessions of a Not-So-Supermodel: Faith, Friends and Festival Queens (2008). In light of her own slower pace as a blogger, she reflected on reasons bloggers should continue to write and publish their thoughts:
- Writing gives us creative space.
- Writing helps us leave an others-centered legacy.
- Writing causes us to be quiet.
- Writing about our experiences helps others.
- Writing can be a testimony of the Holy Spirit of God at work in us and through us.
So What?
I started this blog in June of 2009 and moved to a daily format in October of 2010. In my own experience, I have found all of Lindsey’s arguments to be sound. If you blog, keep blogging. If you don’t blog, consider what means is most appropriate for expressing your thoughts with words and what the most appropriate distribution channel is to share those ideas with the world.
- For those who blog, do you resonate with Lindsey’s list? What else would you add to it?
- For those who don’t blog, how regularly do you write and how do you share those thoughts with others?