Thank you, Valued Reader. You’ve been very patient during my two-day absence from this blog, and your reward will be TWO posts from me today. I am in a benevolent mood.

This post in particular is to announce the release of the biographical novel, Hans Nielsen Hauge: The Torchbearer, a fictionalized biography of the Norwegian lay evangelist. I did not translate this work, whose original author is Inger Anna Maridal Drangsholt, but I edited the manuscript, so the marks of my genius are all over the final product.

I’ve written about Hauge many times before on this blog, having a  long family history in the Haugean movement; some of my ancestors knew the man personally. The Torchbearer is aimed at young adults, but I found it a very engaging and lively dramatization and I’m pretty excited about it. I recommend it for anyone unfamiliar with Hauge’s story.