About This Blog
Banvit 2008
My beautiful wife, Erin, was the first blogger in our family. At the time, I didn’t think it was a very good idea. In fact, I must confess that I told her then that I was not a very big fan of the ‘blog scene.’ She wisely disregarded my anti-blog inclinations and I, in turn, soon wisely forsook them. Not only that, but I went on to become an even greater blog fanatic myself, even going so far as to start about 10 myself.
Of course, I didn’t keep up with them all. Indeed, a few of them only achieved a title and the basic, boring, ugly blue WordPress theme that comes with the download. But I did start them all (and maybe a few more come to think of it). And the reason (I realize now) I did so is because I was trying to create various contexts for my thoughts. I was trying to organize my thinking through various blogs. Trying to give myself specific outlets for whatever random thoughts entered into my over-active brain. Theological thoughts went one place. Basketball thoughts went another. Family thoughts still another. And on down the list.
I suppose it was like having 10 journals rather than 1. You can imagine the end result: a few blogs rose to the top while the rest slowly disappeared. Then the ones that remained could not contain the various aspects of life I wanted to address, so that I ended up stepping away from blogging altogether in order to focus my blogging energies for the good of my own mind and, I hope, the good of others as well.
All of that led me to the creation of this site, JoeCrispin.com. I began it in order to blog on whatever I pleased in this one place, but as time has gone on, I have come to realize that the best thing I can do is to focus on the few things I do best. Or at least the few things I enjoy blogging about most. This is where sports, competition and Christianity come in.
Naturally, as a Christian, Christ is central to my life. No matter what the topic, I believe without a shadow of a doubt that God has a perspective on the matter, and I want to best understand it. But as you might expect, certain topics are closer to my heart than others. And though sports and competition do not make up the whole of my ‘most important’ list, they are no doubt there and the two areas that I believe I can best blog upon most.
I am now 31 years old and in the midst of my 10th professional basketball season. I have sought athletic greatness for essentially, my entire life. And though I did not always do so with the right motives or methods, after becoming a Christian, I just had to understand how sports and competition fit into a genuine, God-centered life.
So I read and learned and failed time and again. And I continue to do so. But as I have gone through the process, I have come to believe that I can serve God and others best in the only world I have ever really known – the sports world. I have come to see that I will probably spend the rest of my life in sports, and most importantly, that that is a very good thing. Or at least it can be.
How? Why? To what extent? Well, those are questions I will seek to answer at some point in time. All I can say at this point is that if you have any interest in sports and competition and how they fit into a genuine God-centered life, my hope and prayer is that I will serve you well. I look forward to giving it a consistent try.
- Joe Crispin (1/1/11)
