Hello Blogosphere!

I have always feared the blogosphere. I don’t enter it often. Once a fortnight—maybe. (I can hear my wife laughing at me for using the word fortnight, but it just takes less energy to say than “every two weeks.”) Entering the blogosphere may lead to my ruin, but I’ve had a lot on my mind lately, and I just finished a biography of John Adams which got me to thinking what little we’d know about him if it weren’t for his letters and journal entries. Some of them are quite enlightening. And what a precious gift would the world have missed if David Brainerd had not logged his personal exploits! Perhaps the likes of some such as William Carey, who acknowledged a great debt to Brainerd’s diary, would not have done so much for the cause of Christ. I do not pretend to be any more than a chirping cricket in comparison to these singing swans, but I’d be content if a few of my morsels and marvelings helped crack open a window to a new world for some. Besides, most of what I intend to do is not to shed any new light on the universe but to pass on light from the One who brought it into existence—as well as from a few sages who have refracted that light far better than I could. If you choose to read my musings, I would welcome your (pithy) comments. If you choose not to read, I trust you will still be able to live a full, rich, and happy life.

Full of wonder,

Kent