First Post and Explanation

This blog does not pretend to be anything other than what it is: a blog by a soon-to-be former teacher and soon-to-be-current law student wrestling with issues in law, theology, education, and culture. I claim no great expertise (what expertise I have, let it stand for itself) and reserve all rights to change my opinions as my understanding deepens and broadens over time (with the help of you, surely, my constructive readers and commentators).

That said, this blog does have concrete goals, and unsubstantiated commentary is not one of them. I will endeavor to be self-critical and open, but also honest and relentless in pursuit of good ideas and constructive critiques that go beyond sound bites and spin. If you, in your commentary on this blog, repeatedly breach the norms of productive civil discourse, I will delete your comments and ban you from the site. There are other blogs out there that encourage partisan soap-boxing; I'm sure you will find your home somewhere. Go in peace.

NOW, for the good stuff: Law, Theology, Education, Culture. Leaving economics aside (I got as far as macro-econ 101 at Vanderbilt), these to me make up some of the pillars of society. Or at least they're really, really important. I'm interested in the way that they shape our lives and, more particularly, how they each interrelate to the others. If you are too, then welcome.

Without going into (much) further detail, let me just say that the title of this blog captures its modus operandi best--if there is any hope for us in the long run, it will be grounded upon this simple fact: the world we live in is the world we build ourselves each day. We have collective and individual power to change culture, politics, education, and the state of faith in America. We build this city. There is nothing incredible romantic meant by that statement--building and changing is very, very hard business. But if we conceive of this local, national, and (increasingly) global society of ours as a living breathing thing, created and formed anew each new day, we realize that the world we live in is one we collectively each second will into existence. Willing, then, does perhaps contain the way...