According to the all knowing Enneagram test I am:
The principled, idealistic type; conscientious and ethical, with a strong sense of right and wrong. [People like me] are teachers, crusaders, and advocates for change: always striving to improve things, but afraid of making a mistake. Well-organized, orderly, and fastidious, [I] try to maintain high standards, but can slip into being critical and perfectionistic. [I] typically have problems with resentment and impatience. At [my] Best: wise, discerning, realistic, and noble. Can be morally heroic.
If you wanted to stand detached and analyze my personality apart from me, then I’d say most of that is pretty accurate. But it’s so hard to great a sense of person from some test rating. Frankly, it’s hard for me to even describe myself. Writing is basically my living, but when it comes to the “about me” sections, I always find myself stumped. But I’ll give it a shot.
My name is Blake Huggins and this is my ongoing, emerging adventure.
I suppose I could start at the beginning to talk about the history of my life, an autobiography of sorts. But I won’t. This is the “about” page. So I’ll talk about what I’m about.
Over that last 4 or so years I’ve had the privilege of studying a great institution of which I owe a huge debt of gratitude. During that time I challenged (and continue to challenge) every major belief I had. It was painful, but very rewarding and very fulfilling. It was there that I met my wife, my life partner and best friend and it was there that I moved beyond my first naivete into a stage of criticism and deconstruction, a stage I hope a never fully abandon.
But I want to move past that. I want to settle into a second naivete.
And that’s where I am today. This blog is a part of that. I don’t really like to call myself a Christian, mainly because that term is so ambiguous and so domesticated. But I suppose I am one. If by Christian you mean following the radical way of Jesus to subvert the empire, challenge the status quo and synergetically participating in an alternative type of reality where God sits on the throne and not Caesar. If that’s what you mean by “Christian,” then yes, I make the audacious and outrageous claim of being one.
In that sense maybe it would be best to describe myself my the western, American, imperial, and consumer-oriented context as post-Christian, more specifically, a recovering post-evangelical. I am a mainline refugee, a 21st century expatriate trying to find my way, rather trying to follow the Way in the strange new land of post-Christendom within the empire
I am unfinished. This section of my blog is unfinished and ongoing. I am thus a work in progress. My trajectory is. . .
