Do you have any idea how hard it is to write an introduction for something like this?  

How hard it is to speak to the vast array of viewpoints you predict will piggyback in with the people who wander a medium so expansive and interconnected as the Internet?  How do we keep the interest of this short-attention span generation?  What clever language do we craft to keep mouse pointers from drifting closer and closer to that browser back button, aborting our thoughts before their full birth?  How many will already understand what we're trying to say, and how many will hear a resounding "Huh?" in the caverns of their mind?  Do we wax poetic, speak slang, rant and rave, get philosophical, be conversational, joke around, over-analyze, or deliver the most ambitious manifesto we can muster up?

How do we explain our seemingly contradictory allegiances to lowbrow pop culture and academic high culture, to Christian culture and non-Christian culture, to the reverent and the irreverent, to independent and mainstream media?  Can we say we get meaning out of both Dostoevsky's novels and X-Men comics, Korn and Emily Dickinson, C.S. Lewis and Six String Samurai, Ballydowse and The Simpsons, and still present a common editorial purpose?  Is there an audience with the same mix of interests?  Is anyone even going to read this?

How do we speak with a voice authentically our own when we don't even know how that sounds yet?  How do we do this without becoming just one more voice clamoring to be heard rather than listen?  Why bother speaking when everything we'll say has probably been delivered elsewhere already with different wrapping paper?  Do we just speak our mind and not worry about it?  What is our mind, by the way?

How do we convey our spiritual vantage point without alienating differing views?  In a shivering world that covers itself with the threadbare blanket of "it's all good," do we dare add to the many opinions on how to fix the heating system?  Where do we start on our long list of qualms with the heating system of religion?  Is it just a heating system?  In contrast with religion, how do we relate our hair-blown-back awe of a mysterious but revealed God without being vague, subjective, or smug?  How do we avoid building with the abundant but hollow wood of typical human communication - cliches, insider language, stereotypes - and yet construct a sturdy house of thought comfortable and accessible for many different people?  

How can we downplay imaginary boundaries like sacred and secular, when so much of our potential readership sees them as concrete and organizes their very lives between such lines?  How do we capture the wisdom of the ages in a soundbite?  How will we know when we've stumbled on that wisdom?

How do we inform, encourage, inspire, entertain, and addict people in a few simple paragraphs, pictures, or sounds?  Are we being neurotic?   How do you write an introduction entirely made of questions, without people thinking you have no answers? 

Hey, don't ask us.

Josh Spencer- Editor in chief
Brian Heflin- co-producer / writer
Aaron Gerry- webmaster

(NOTE - The baby featured  throughout the site is Caleb Spencer, nephew of Josh.  The "love child" slogan refers to our identity as people with mixed interests in God and pop culture, which at times appear illegitimate to the minds of others and even to ourselves.)