Why I Am Starting to Blog

Hello anyone who is reading this blog. I don't have high expectations for this blog, since I've never consistently journaled or blogged before, but I feel like writing something about my life right now could be helpful to me, so I thought I would try blogging. That last sentence pretty well sums up why I'm starting this exercise, I feel like it will be therapeutic for me to write about some of my thoughts and experiences and perhaps get some feedback from other people. The fact remains, however, that I am largely doing this for me, and overall I don't expect what I write to have a wide appeal. This is because I am not a particularly practiced writer outside of academic writing, and my target audience is rather specific (it consists of young, Christian aspiring academics who are fairly liberal, at least when compared to their conservative parents, yet want to remain true to the roots of orthodoxy, and are confused about how to live their lives well). I hope that what I write is either entertaining or thought provoking, and ideally both, however we'll just have to see.