when i would like your input

I've been quiet in this space and over at the food blog this past week.

Between my best friend getting married---like WOAH---and holidays and travel, there hasn't been a lot of room to write. There's been time to reflect, though, and I've been thinking through the shape of this space for the year to come.

2013 will bring some big changes---I'll find out about book publishers, PhD acceptance, if I'll spend the summer living in Paris, among other things. It's exciting and daunting, but such is the way of things.

I was wondering, then, before I come back to regular posting next Monday, if you'd take a minute to check in:

What have you liked in this space? What have you not liked? What would you like to see more or less of in 2013?

Responses can be brief, can be long, you can email me via the contact page.

I'd like some input on how better to serve you. Some blogging friends of mine have done similar things before and I think it's a great exercise in knowing readers well.

Tell me about why you come here, why you stay, what you want to hear more or less about.

For now, see you afresh next week!

Meet Preston

Preston is a twenty-something once-upon-a-time conservative Southern Baptist from Texas who learned to read saints, cross himself, and move across the world to China, England, and Scotland. Since, he's been theologically conservative, oft politically liberal, but radically pro-life, a believer in sacraments and sacramentality, a sort-of Christian feminist, an idealist pacifist who also understands the need for civil defense ... and a handful of everything else in-between. He thinks of himself now as a haphazard and patchwork Bapto-Anglican, though he is becoming confirmed in the Anglican tradition. This blog is his repository of working this whole faith thing out day by day, bird by bird. His first book, Tables in the Wilderness, a memoir of God found, lost, and found again, is due out autumn 2014 with Zondervan.