Elemental CM is now Kidmin and Culture! Don’t worry there should be no need to update your RSS feeds or anything like that. I’ pretty sure I covered it so that those of you who subscribe to my feed don’t have to change anything. If you don’t subscribe to the feed, what are you waiting for?

You may be wondering, “Why the sudden change? Where have you been? Why haven’t you blogged lately? Now you go and change the name of your blog???”

Well, let me begin by saying that I had to intentionally step away from blogging in order to focus on my primary job of being a stay-at-home dad. I was finding that my blogging kept taking priority over me being fully dad to my kids. Rather than this blog being the “something extra” I did on the side, being a dad was becoming the “something extra.” Not good. So I took a short sabbatical from the blogging. I am back, but the frequency with which I blog will drop to once a week. I may blog more frequently than that, but I feel that once a week is a good place in order to keep my position as a dad firmly in first place when it comes to my responsibilities.

Why the change? Well, there isn’t an easy reason for it. Let me just say that my purpose for blogging has not changed. I’m still about exploring the mutual affect children’s ministry and culture have on each other. I’m also still passionate about what it means for children’s ministry to be missional and what that looks like in a church context. The only change is that I wanted to focus a bit more on taking a look at the greater culture around us and spark conversations on how we engage, leverage, affect and be affected by it in the world of children’s ministry.

Another reason for the change was the necessity of me to move this blog from self-hosted back to free WordPress.com hosting. At this time in our lives, we are simply unable to afford paying for hosting fees.

I look forward to future interactions as we grate against each other and move children’s ministry forward.