“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
The writer of the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes (1:9) got it right, and this blog is proof. Doesn’t the world have enough blogs as it is? Aren’t blogs an outdated way of getting your “message” across. Probably. But I need a place to put my thoughts and a blog seems the best place to do it. After all, I’ve actually had two blogs in the past. Both were enormously unpopular. But in a dizzying world full of ideas, slogans and the like, I need a place to put stuff I’m thinking through. Some of it might be complete rubbish, but I hope to provide an interesting salad of ideas from a conservative Christian perspective. And I hope to put a more positive spin on things, if I can manage it.
All of the opinions on this blog are my own and shouldn’t be taken as being representative of anyone else. If anything I say is wrong or offensive, please blame me. If anything is correct or helpful, you can blame God for that.
The blog is called spes clara, which is Latin for ‘bright hope’. I thought it sounded interesting. Latin is pretty cool. The English words ‘bright hope’ are taken from the line of a hymn called “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” written by Thomas Chisholm. That wonderful hymn says:
“Strength for today
And bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine
With ten thousand beside.”
Bright hope sounds good. I need that. As a person who’s always been a bit glass-half-empty, I’d like to start seeing things differently. This blog is, then, an attempt to articulate an emerging optimism which is driven by personal growth connected to my own theological development.
If you understood any of that, feel free to have a look around. Let’s find out if this blog is useful to anyone, including myself.
I hope it is.
spes clara 