The previous post expressed some pent-up frustration that felt really good to let out (wonderful, actually) and helped me decide that this blog should be more than a vent, it should be a locus for my interests.

The focus of this blog will move towards bringing to light many of the lost writings of German Pietism, especially those relating to Halle and Herrnhut. I have deep emotional ties to both the Moravian and Lutheran traditions, and have found these writings to be of immense help to me, and plan to focus my academic career around developing a greater understanding of them. It is my hope to bring many lost gems into the postmodern awareness, bringing forth a personal reality of a risen, living, and eternal God in those who read them.

I feel that there is a lot of attention being paid to the great reformed tradition of England, Scotland and Wales, but the Northern European writings of the same era have not received much consideration at all. Part of the problem has been that they exist almost exclusively in the “scholarly” realm, a place removed and inaccessible to the hungry Pilgrim (who wants stale bread when you can have a fresh biscuit with jam from such wonderful and gifted contemporaries such as John Piper, Mark Dever, Mark Driscoll, Tim Keller as well as scores of others – in addition to the volumes of devotional material reprinted from the Puritan and later Reformed movement.) My hope is to provide a truly pastoral sharing of these works, with my heart inclined to well-being of the reader and not just the historicity of the writings.