Another good writing day

Monday was a good writing day. I finished the chapter on Hugh Stowell Brown's years as a "working man" and decided I need a separate chapter on his call to ministry, including the death of his father. I think what I wrote yesterday is developing a style for the book. I'm feeling more positive about the biography now.

The other part of my sabbatical studies is about ministry, specifically about how to be a minister at work and how Baptist ministers might work part of their time pastoring a church and part of their time in a secular workplace, but see all of it as "ministry". I've been developing some ideas on this theme, about trained ministers being missionaries to workplaces, not as chaplains but by working there. I really need someone to talk all this through with, and I might see if I can spend some time at the ministry department at the Baptist Union in Didcot.