Over the next few weeks and/or months, I'll be posting #reflectionsonturning50 on my various social media. As someone who is a #geek and a #southernman, I've been influenced by a lot of different things. Right now I'm realizing that the majority of the #sciencefiction & #fantasy

which influenced me from my youth was primarily by white men. I was influenced by a quite a few female writers of fantasy and science fiction but they were also white. None of my early influences, to the best of my knowledge, were people of color.

Now, at the cusp of 50....

I need to rectify that. Yes, over the past 25 years I've discovered a few writers of color and I've found what they've written to be wonderful but there was little to no intentionality behind it so, now it seems, an integral part of my #geektheology will be to begin reading....

writers of color in my favorite genre. Since #geektheology has, from its inception, been about a theology from a place on the margins. This is what appealed to my #redneck #geeky #southernman #roots. For a young boy who loved to read Scifi and fantasy and play #dnd in the 1980s..

I often felt on the outside of everything. The music I chose to listen to also put me on the margins. Nothing I enjoyed was #cool or #hip in the area in which I lived except among my small group of friends.

I say all of this because #geektheology is also growing to...

address what it looks like when people on the margins enter into a place of authority and/or privilege. How does that work? How do they behave? What morals, ethics, and spirituality guide us? How does our #faith speak to us when we're on the margins and what does it have to say..

to us when we are no longer on the margins? How do we, who are in places of privilege, support, and love those who are still are the margins?

These are essential questions to a #geektheologian.