About pomomusings

My name is Adam Walker Cleaveland. I’m a Minister for Youth & Young Adults and have been blogging at pomomusings for over six years. I live in Livermore, CA with my wife Sarah who is pursuing a PhD in Spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union.

What’s a weblog…?

I still remember being in my car driving on I-84 toward Twin Falls Idaho when my friend Tony said he was starting a weblog. I hadn’t heard of one before, so he had to explain it to me. Later that day, I started up a blog using Typepad and called it pomomusings. I was just starting to get into some postmodern/emergent theology and “pomo” was kind of the hip way to refer to all things postmodern. So, in my desire to be “hip” I thought, “Well, I’ll be musing on all things pomo, so…pomomusings it is.” I’ve since thought about changing the name, but it’s been around long enough now that I think I’m stuck with it.

Over the past five years or so, I’ve found that blogs, as with any medium, have their strengths and weaknesses, but I’ve always enjoyed the community I’ve found here at pomomusings. I have cultivated many new friendships based off of relationships that started here on this blog, and there have been some great moments of conversation and dialogue. Who knows how long I’ll continue to blog here, but for now, it’s providing a helpful outlet for me to share some thoughts that come to me and engage with others.

Why pomomusings?

I started pomomusings as a place for me to be able to reflect on ministry, theology and life; it has been just that place for me and I hope for some others along the way as well (for a longer version of this story and my bio, go here). I am someone who likes to rock the boat a bit, and I think this blog has served as a space where I can think about some of the more controversial issues in culture and church life. Over the past five years, I’ve written close to 1300 posts and there have been around 11,500 comments posted to pomomusings.

As I think about the direction pomomusings is taking, I think I’m going to be writing a lot about technology, theology, LGBT issues in the church and youth ministry:

• Technology: In addition to being pretty connected to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, & LinkedIn, I do web & graphic design with Cleave Design (my small business) and am a pretty big fan of all Apple products. Also, if you need a speaker on Web 2.0, especially its role in the church today, I would be interested.
• Theology & Church: Whether you want to call it the postmodern church, emerging church, Emergent church…whatever…those are conversations I enjoy having and helping other people think about. I was one of the founders of Presbymergent, a group of Presbyterians who are trying to think creatively and outside-the-box when it comes to doing ministry in a Presbyterian context in the 21st century. I’m also interested in theology and how it practically affects our faith and lives.
• LGBT Issues in the Church: For a variety of reasons, this is an issue that I find myself continually to be pretty involved in. I’m open and supportive of LGBT people in the church and hope the church will one day be open to LGBT persons serving in all areas of the church, including ordained ministry.
• Youth Ministry: I have a heart for youth, and in my current context as Minister for Youth & Young Adults, I get a lot of time to think about youth ministry and the ways in which we are working with young people today.

Subscribe to pomomusings

To stay updated with pomomusings, please subscribe to the RSS feed here and you can subscribe to my Twitter Feed here. There are also many places where you can find me and connect with me: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, & LinkedIn.

I’d love to connect with you on Twitter – I find Twitter to be one of the ways in which I spend the most time online these days and I’d love to have you join me in those conversations. You can follow me on Twitter at @adamwc. Please If you do decide to follow me, please send me a message and introduce yourself as I would love to follow you as well!

There is a lot more I could say here – so if you want to connect with me or have any questions, please get in touch via the Contact page.