This blog owes its birth to Hugh Hewitt.

My mom gave me his book In, But Not Of: A Guide to Christian Ambition for Christmas, and I’ve been consuming it rapidly. It’s one of the best written books I’ve read in years. It makes me think he’s read William Zinsser’s On Writing Well.

I knew Hugh was into blogging, but I laughed when after a hundred injunctions of weight, depth and cosmic import, I turned the page to find an entire chapter called “Start a Weblog.” I’m not saying I disagree about blogging’s important – it’s just that it’s still such a new movement in human history, compared to reading and understanding the history of Western Civilization or joining your local church and helping to save souls, seeing blogging put front and center was surprising- but again, not wrong.

Hugh said that no front running Evangelical blogger has emerged, and if there were one that could talk about the modern world and real life as a Christian with humor and insight, well that would be a big deal.

I thought, why not me?

I’ve already started a dozen blogs and kept writing in at least four of them. I’m a deep guy. I’m a funny guy. I’m a Christian. I think a lot and struggle daily to work out my salvation with fear and trembling… why not me?

So you’ve inspired me Mr. Hewitt. Here we go.

- Brian Carter