A few good blogs…

November 2, 2006

Joy asked in the comment section if I had suggestions for some other interesting blogs. The answer is: too many! There are a TON of great blogs out there. Really, people are journaling about almost everything under the sun out there. Some of these are informal, some are major productions. Not everything out there is worth the time to read, but some of them really are. And many offer an interesting perspective into what other people are thinking out there. Just remember: don’t believe everything you read out there, and don’t be surprised if you find things you agree with and other things that raise your hackles. Its the nature of the internet, I guess.
So ever so often I’ll post a Blog of the Week or a Blog of the Month or a Blog of the Moment. For now, let me offer a few that are particularly good blogs with a theological bent:

• The Thoughtful Christian Blog, Are you Thoughtful?, offers commentary and resources related to the Thoughtful Christian web-based adult Christian education
  service. Published by the Presbyterian Westmisnter John Knox Press, this is an ecumenical endeavor that offers some probing questions about the contemporary life of faith.
• Bill Tammeus is well known to many of us. He’s a member at Second Presbyterian Church of Kansas City and writes in the Faith section of the Kansas City Star. He has his own blog, Faith Matters, and its worth several looks.
• Think Christian always has good red meat for me to chew on.
• Jordan Cooper is a Canadian blogger writing about the emergent church. There’s lots out there from the emergent community, but Jordan’s stuff is very interesting. Some other time, if there’s interest, I could offer a slew of emergent church links.
• Finally, there’s the Presbyterian Bloggers and their associated blogring (or a collection of blogs who identify somehow with the Presbyterian Church. One of them is Westminster Sermons, where the new pastor at the church I grew up at in Saint Louis posts his weekly offerings from the pulpit. Here is a list of the blogs in the blog ring. Or just find a random blog in the blog ring. Fair warning: Presbyterian bloggers are as diverse as our churches, so expect to find a range of views, from very liberal to very conservative, and everything in between.

That’s just a few that come to mind. I hope you find them helpful. If you do, or if you’ve got some that you read, please post about it in the comment section!

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