Wow, the idea of “time” is enough of an interest of mine that it warrants its own blog category. And the title “it’s about time” has been used at least once before on these pages.

Anyway, what I pitched to the editors of Denominational Magazine is a series of ten articles exploring different scriptural perspectives on time. My experience as a pastor has suggested that time is a huge spiritual issue for people.
From the proposal:

It’s been suggested that our checkbooks are theological documents, reflecting our faith and our priorities. So are our calendars. How we spend our time—indeed, how we view time—has profound spiritual implications for us as followers of Jesus, the One who was “in the beginning with God” and who also became flesh and lived as one of us.The issue of time touches us all, regardless of life circumstance. This series is for the working couple who struggles to find time for one another, for the mother who watches her young children grow up “in a blink of an eye,” for the man facing retirement and wondering how best to spend his jubilee years, for seniors looking back over a full life and wondering about their legacy, for pastors who seek to minister to the chronically busy and the stressed out—and who are chronically busy and stressed out themselves… and for many others.

This series will explore a variety of scriptural perspectives on time— God’s relationship to time, our attitude towards time, Jesus’ approach to time, and how to reclaim time as a gift.

There are columns on kairos and chronos, sabbath, the role of memory, eschatology, hurry, and multitasking (fun to find scriptures for those last two!)

I heard back from the editor today (finally? when you’re waiting for feedback, time moves slowly!) and she was enthusiastic. My challenge will be to focus. The topic is rich; the subtopics are also. Some of them overlap. My concern was that the topic was too specific, but the more I kept digging, the more angles I saw.

So, It’s About Time. I’m sure I’ll be writing more about that in this space.