For months on end, I’ve broadcast world wide my innability to “imagine a brief, accurate account of myself” on this page. Enough of that. As reticent as I am to generate my own definition in roughly 140 characters, I have a bit more to say lately than I did shortly after this site went live.
For the first twenty-five years of my life, I called the community of Jesus People USA Covenant Church in Uptown, Chicago my home. I left shortly after I finished my undergraduate work on the northwest side of the city to pursue a seminary education, expecting that it might be several years before I returned to the City of Big Shoulders for good, if ever.
I spent some time in New York volunteering with these folks, then headed to the Garden State to take an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary. Along the way, I worked with these people, became acquainted with far more than I wish to summarize here, and am now steadily marching to…God only knows where. In the mean time, I often pad my travels with a bit of busking. I’d like get over to The Land sometime soon, but my next gig will most likely be elsewhere.
So what does this make this site? I guess it’s the closest thing to home. The “space” in my life that has changed the least, or at least the space over which I’ve shared the most control, of late. So, thanks for dropping by; I hope you enjoy your stay and come back soon.
shalom,
Jacob S. Heiss
10 July 2008