Writing about faith isn’t always fun.

Now, blogging is a fun form of writing, to be sure. And faith, for avid believers like me, can also be fun. But I’m not sure the two always mix well in inspiring a sense of fun.

For me, faith is a bit more serious and deeper than the “fun” label implies. That’s not to say faith isn’t fun. I’ve found ways to get my bat and bar mitzveh kids to get excited about searching through Torah, and I’ve developed a knack for making the principals of Torah relevant to the world as they know it.

But blogging about faith is sometimes more utilitarian than it is fun; kind of like buying car covers rather than a jazzy new sound system for a car.

I think it’s because, to blog meaningfully about faith, you have to know your stuff, and that means research. Fortunately, I enjoy research most of the time. But all of the time? No, not always.

Still, once one gets down to actually doing it, I think writing or blogging about what I believe had deepened my faith more than most traditional faith-building activities.