Another list of the 98 Top Christian Blogs. HT: ChurchCrunch. I know there are many variables that go into these lists and one should take them with a pinch of salt. But they are also a good introduction to what’s out there. This one seems to be a list of Protestant Christian blogs which again is not the whole picture. But worthwhile anyway.
Tallskinnykiwi makes the list. Nice explanation. Thanks you guys!
Also, for your attention, Open Source Theology up high on the list. Well done, Andrew Perriman! I had a drink with Andrew last month in Germany and he gave me his latest book which brings a fresh challenge to contemporary thinking on Romans. I blogged it but didn’t get much response. Maybe you should take another look.
2 more Christian blogs that should be on the list, to bring the total to 100 [why 98???] are both underrated but worthy blogs:
1. Jonny Baker runs a much better blog than me but without the American audience needed to push his numbers up, it ranks lower than it should. Jonny’s blog is an overflowing dam of worship resources and he has just released a book called Curating Worship.
2. Jordon Cooper has blogged from the very beginning and then before that. He and I used to have the top Christian blogs in the world for a number of years. Jordon has bucked the trend to blog solely on a single topic, or to allow his blog to become a pimping station for the book industry, and instead offers a holistic, real, honest window into his life and mind. Its about football and Jesus and food and whatever is ACTUALLY GOING ON in a blogger’s life. That’s how a good blog should be. I wish my blog was more like that.
3. And of course the blog of Scot McNight, whose rapid-fire theological blogging from the hip raised the bar for everyone. Scot’s blog has just moved [again] to here. Hey Scot, changing URLs is never good for rankings. But we all know your blog rocks so don’t worry.
OK that’s 101. I’ll stop there.
I can’t believe Cerulean Sanctum, one of my favorite blogs up there with Internet Monk and Jesus Creed for the last few years, wasn’t on the list: http://ceruleansanctum.com/
thanks for the link and the move towards JUSTICE for deserving bloggers.
I read through this list of 98 and went to visit several of them. While many are probably well-deserving of recognition, I was disappointed in the list as a whole for being comprised of so many men. Really, in the whole world, there aren’t enough women writing about Christianity–other than mommyblogs and “women’s issues”–that at least a few of them should appear in such a list? Women aren’t writing blogs that address critical issues in Christianity today? Or those who do aren’t being noticed by the men who compile the lists? Or…
Not that this lack of appropriate gender representation is your responsibility, Andrew, but I wondered what thoughts you had on this, since you are promoting the list.
Thanks.
I see they had no category for art or creativity
Sandra – thanks – my thoughts on Christian woman bloggers are here at this post http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2008/11/female-christia.html
Weird that ONLY English speaking blogs consider themselves as the “tops of the world”, isn’t it…?!
thanks for this link. I will be checking them out soon.
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