On April 19, 2002, at exactly 11.23am, I gathered a few of my blogging friends and launched a commununal blog called A Kingdom Space. The tag line was “A global diablog – stories that are bigger than our own.” Within a very short time, we were about 40 bloggers telling our stories of what God was doing in our countries. A few bloggers got their first taste of blogging on A Kingdom Space and others were quite new at it.
Here’s a list of some AKS bloggers that I copied off the WayBackMachine – not all of these links to their own blogs will work but you will recognize some of the names. To everyone on this list, and to the many others that contributed to A Kingdom Space, we thank you and appreciate your efforts not just for blogging, and for snapshotting the emerging church in your countries at that time, but also for being part of shaping the future of the blogosphere.
- Urbanonramps by Rudy Carasco
- Deep Dirt by Karen Ward
- Sion Bubbles by Amy Chapman
- Coop by Jordon Cooper
- Bloggedyblog by Andrew Careaga
- They Blinked by Dan Hughes
- Punkmonkey John O’Keefe
- Wendy Cooper’s Blog by Wendy Cooper
- The Invisible Sun by Darren Friesen
- Alan Creech by Alan Creech
- Blah Blah Blog by Kevin Rains
- Jonny Baker Blog by Jonny Baker
- What Is Church Group Blog
- Marc’s Messages by Marc Van Der Woude
- Berlin Rocks by Kerstin Hack
- Dutch Traveller by Ronald Van Der Moulen
- Emergent Downunder by SteveTaylor
- Cre8d Journal by Rachel Cunnilife
- My Valentine by Jason Evans
- Daniel’s Journey by Daniel Miller
- Ashley’s Blog by Ashley McGlone
- Eggbert by Craig Pelkey-Landes
- Cedarlily by Abigail High
- Reinhold’s Journey by Reinhold Scharnowski
- Palmer’s Journal by Mark Palmer
- Moogloo by Andy and Bea
- Neill’s Outbox by Neill Birchenall
- Monkhouse by David Hopkins
- Charles Wear’s Notes by Charlie Wear
- Fat Blue Man by John Janzen
- Tall Skinny Kiwi by Andrew Jones
- Fully Devoted by Glen Teal
- Barky by Mark Barkaway
- Moshie by Tom Smith
- Sturdy Bridges by Jessica Stricker
- Shannons blog by Shannon Hopkins
- Living Room by Darren Rowse
- Liquid Thinking by Mark Riddle
If you are feeling nostalgic for the early days of Christian blogging, jump into the first month of A Kingdom Space and have a read.
And if you are a budding blog-historian, tell me if you think A Kingdom Space was the world’s first Christian communal blog or if it was preceded by something else that we don’t yet know about.
that is amazing – i just posted on 18 april that my blog was ten years old! you must have invited me in to this two days later!!
http://jonnybaker.blogs.com/jonnybaker/2012/04/ten-years-blogging-today.html
Jonny, congrats on becoming a “Vintage Theoblogian”
Your 10 Year Vintage Theoblogian badge is waiting for you here
http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2011/11/vintage-theoblogians.html
Happy Birthday….
Very cool, that this thing is up, alive and moving.
By the way. I moved my English blog to:
http://heartofberlin.de/
And there I tell the story of creating a new Kingdom space. Not in virtuall space, but in real life. On a ship. In the heart of Berlin.
Nice, I’m sorry the link from your posting on “Punks turned monks” no longer worked – I’d like to have read that!
Wow , thanks for your influence Andrew!
You were also the one who introduced me to blogging (with Darren Rowse) in the same email at that time and now he is the pro!
Since those days I have been blogging at http://www.soulgardeners.com
Peace from South Africa
Hi Andrew,
I now blog (with wordpress) at http://www.emergentkiwi.org.nz. I started with blogger at 9 June, 2002 (I so want that vintage badge Andrew!), although the host is now long gone.
First comments were from you, from Prodigal Kiwi and Cre8.
steve