You may have noticed the new icon for this site (if you’re using IE or another browser that looks at favicon.ico in the site’s root directory), which reflects the change in color from #FF9900 to #FF6600 for the orange. I forget why I made this change, but I like it.

The icon was designed to be two slashes, like I’ve been using in recent // post titles. I don’t know why I started doing this; it’s kind of cheesy, but it’s a good alternative punctuation for times when you don’t know what to put. Emily Dickenson used em-dashes a lot, so I don’t feel too bad about it.

When my wife saw the icon, she said “Oh, is that two congruent lines, for ‘radical congruency’?” Wow, I hadn’t thought of that. The selection of two slashes was a completely unintentional symbolism for this site’s name. Cool.

I am also reminded of Andrew Jones’ March post Forward Slash: A Narrative Missiology, about the teaching he’s doing this season. I like the imagery - it’s like trailblazing, finding a path forward.

A way forward. That’s what I want to provide by sharing my thinking here. Thank you to Andrew, my wife, and all who have helped me find ways forward.

On the same note, April has a great post on the painful sense of hope she felt in Sierra Leone, where she recently shot footage for a video shown at her church. She writes of their plight:

It seems tragic, knowing the situation, that there should even be hope. The hope itself feels tragic. It’s like a little dandelion struggling through a street of concrete- it has no right to be there. And so, I’m overwhelmed with gratitude. I want to put up walls and protect the dandelion so no car will run over it.

Maybe the way forward is not always a pre-cleared path. //