In an ongoing effort to bring you both thought provoking articles and mind numbing entertainment, I’m compiling my short list of favorite blogs. I narrowed the list to blogs because I think that’s where the best content is on the web these days.
Why only five? Add to the list in the comments!
- Challies.com — A christian blog that has been around since the beginning of blogging popularity. The site’s design ROCKS. And he is a very good writer and clear thinker. He writes a lot of book reviews as well as church life/general christianity stuff. The quality of his site and his writing is rare in the blogosphere.
- Nathan’s Blog — Nathan Rice, to be specific. This is one of my favorite bloggers and I visit it almost daily. He alternates between articles on science (usually as it relates to Intelligent Design), politics, and Christianity/theology. His blogging is always open ended. He rarely comes to the conclusions himself, but just gives some info and poses a question to the readers. It makes the commenting integral to the content. Head on over and join in!
- Tall Skinny Kiwi — one of the older christian blogs around and very popular. He’s tall, skinny, and he’s from New Zealand: hence the blog’s name. I think he was a house church planter for a while and has since gotten involved in the emerging church. From his About Page:
I am the Project Director for the Boaz Project. We are developing a support structure for church in the emerging culture. My blog is about God, spirituality, new media and new expressions of church
The content there ranges from personal posts to longer articles on church life, culture, book reviews, and theology. Great stuff.
- The Resurgence — a ministry of Mars Hill Church. Lots of writers (Mark Driscoll, Ed Stetzer, Gary Shavey, sometimes John Piper, and others) writing on a wide range of topics, the most common being theology and missional church life. The articles are usually pretty deep and involved treatments of various subjects. It’s often not light reading, but a great resource. And Mark Driscoll is a little cranky so it makes it fun to read.
- Lifehacker — a tech blog with multiple writers with content designed for non-techies. They post multiple times a day and rarely a day goes by that I don’t see something there that is helpful in my job or in my home office.
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I am SO offended that you wouldn’t consider our blog one of your top five…. *sigh*… we will have to work harder to try and make it to the next level.
LOL! Ladies and Gents… I give you “Favorite Blog” #6….
¡Pura Vida!
Seriously, I’m there all the time. Jan and Greg are missionaries in S. America and old friends. Greg had a profound influence on me when I was in college… his fingerprints are all over the foundation that I stand on today. Go check them out, pray for them, send them money (gasp!), join in the conversation.
Too bad just today I did actually draw a conclusion on my blog :-) I would have loved to leave it up to the commenters to decide on the issues of music, but I’ve done too much research on it to argue strongly for it :-)
Anyway Ben, the feeling is mutual friend! I love having your input in the comments bro. By all means, soapbox readers, join in the fun in the comments. It’s always interesting!
Hey Ben! I actually bookmarked a couple of them… Thanx for the referrals! Love your weblog :)
Thanks, Guy!
Wow! I just noticed your shout-out to my blog! Also, thank you for the kind words. Ben, you have no idea of how you kept me sane during some troubling (and good!) times. I’m honored to have had that place in your life and am glad that, after a decade, we’re all beginning to re-connect at a different stage in our lives.
Wow, and I was hoping you’d include my humble blog on your favorite list. Check out Dr Sidney Wang…the psychic betta fish…