So welcome to blogging. It looks like not many people have discovered you yet, tucked away in a commercial blog instead of an established high traffic site with a community of readers. I can't speak for anyone else, but when I discovered blogs about six or so years ago I let my periodical subscriptions lapse and basicall stopped buying books as well. There is so much content on line now that even a polymath can never embrace it all. I've been blogging over four years and all I have to show for it is a cyber scrapbook of stuff I want to keep. Every time I think I'm about to find a niche, something more interesting comes along and I get spread out even worse.

Count me as one of your fans. I have occasionally posted what I call "radio blogging" directing readers to your site to listen on line to something that caught my attention. I have no way to know whether or not that made any differnce but it gives me satisfaction. At the moment (today, in fact) I'm pushing youor book thanks to the efforts of someone named Sheena on the media team assigned to the task.

That promo comparing you with Bill Moyers doesn't strike me as it should. In my mind you are in the next generation of journalists, dealing with more contemporary issues and people. Moyers interactions with Joseph Campbell and others were immortal, but your talks with today's living thinkers and writers seem more timely to me. Yours is the post-911 era. The content of your work may be cerebral, but the consequences and mission are absolutely more practical than those of the Bill Moyers generation.

When military commanders use phrases like "hearts and minds" I want to believe...but as I watch in horror what they have actually done over the last four or five years I want to shake my head and forget what they said. The phrase turns out to have been nothing but another tool in the psyops box. The insights you take for granted on Speaking of Faith are as rare and fragile as the morning dew on a spider web.

Keep up the good work. (And forget about Britney and other celebs du jour. They come and go like the waterless clouds in Jude. Keep your eye on people like Wallis and the Warrens who are actually doing something to affect change. Yours is the kind of ministry that can be hijacked by pop stars and you're better than that. Keep looking for a common denominator, but it need not be the lowest common denominator. JMHO)