At the beginning of the year, there are many of my friends who choose a word that they hope will be “their” word for the year. Words like: gratitude, peace, balance, and flourish. They then spend the year thinking about the word, if I understand correctly, trying to experience the word or even be motivated by the word. I, obviously, have never chosen a word for the year—except, I think, I’ve discovered that this year a word chose me. Throughout the first seven months of the year, I’ve had a renewed conviction and desire to think about stewardship and specifically stewardship in writing.

It’s 2015. Can you believe it? I’ve been told that as you age time seems to speed up. Last year flew by (as we say every year around this time. ;)). And though it’s always good to reflect on the days gone by, I’m eager to move forward. So, today I’d like to share a little blog news with you and what’s in the plans for this week and this year.

In the 1967 movie Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Joanna “Joey” Drayton, a young white woman played by Katharine Houghton, brings her black boy friend, Dr. John Prentice, played by Sidney Poitier, home to meet her family. Though the parents raised Joanna to be “liberal” and “accepting” they do not approve of her desire to marry Dr. Prentice. The movie was radical for that day—so I’d think. But not so fast. Today we continue to grapple with the same questions and issues.