Top 200 Church Blogs. Do reformed nerds really rule?

17 Comments

• Gavin Richardson says:

  April 15, 2011 at 2:31 pm

  Reformed folks are still trying convince themselves that they are right, so they keep talking. Emerging folks decided & are out doing gospel work. &:~D

• Jeremy Myers says:

  April 15, 2011 at 3:21 pm

  Great post. Glad to see you on the list.
  I wish I knew more about how they chose the 245 sites to rank for the top 200. I checked my blog stats on the five areas that Kent Shafer used, and I was right “in” there.

• Andrew says:

  April 15, 2011 at 3:31 pm

  To his credit, Kent does a great job in discussing how he selects the blogs and also the problems with trying to be fair and accurate
  http://churchrelevance.com/top-200-church-blogs-spring-2011-edition/

• Steve K. says:

  April 15, 2011 at 3:40 pm

  😉 I like that.

• Steve K. says:

  April 15, 2011 at 3:41 pm

  or should I say … @8^]#
  ?

• Kent Shaffer says:

  April 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm

  Great blog, Jeremy! I wasn’t aware of it but will be sure to measure it during the next update to the list.

• brambonius says:

  April 15, 2011 at 7:19 pm

  I thought you had dumped the label ’emerging church’ yourself more than a year ago and said ‘I will not be using the emerging church vocabulary’ and ‘I wont be carrying the emerging church conversation’ in your ‘goodbyes to emergent village’?
  so what about world Christianity? Isn’t it much more important than American in-house discussions? Don’t you have a list of bloggers outside of the US (and UK and even english-speaking Western world) that write in any readable language about their christian life, missions, and the Kingdom of God in maybe very different contexts? such a thing might be more interesting…
  (and also, where are pentecostels and charismatics?)

• Andrew says:

  April 15, 2011 at 8:08 pm

  Good memory, Bram
  You will notice [a few blog posts back] that we are using the phrase “Fringe Expressions” this year for what we would have called “fresh expressions” over the past few years and “emerging church” a few years before that
  But we also acknowledge that some countries are still using the emerging church language and we are cool with that.
  whats the word in Belgium these days ????

• Ali says:

  April 16, 2011 at 3:37 pm

  Wow, I didn’t think you were a Reformed-hater…or at least disliker.

• Andrew says:

  April 18, 2011 at 1:26 pm

  Reformed-hater??? Where did you get that from???
  Its just a little friendly banter that makes life more interesting.
  I love the Reformed folk and I also love the long history of Reformed background that i carry around with me.
  Read my post to find out more: http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2009/10/why-i-am-not-a-new-calvinist-by-one-guy-who-should-be.html

• Ali says:

  April 19, 2011 at 7:07 am

  “Hater” was an exaggeration, but my impression has been recently that any reference to “Reformed folk” has been negative, and some of the comments re. the Rob Bell stuff seemed to place today’s “New Reformed” understanding of heaven and hell in a negative contrast to N.T. Wright, a contrast that doesn’t exist as far as I can see.
  But the knee-jerk reactions I had been reading against “Reformed folk” elsewhere may have coloured my reading of your posts. I was wondering whether your association with those critical of the “New Reformed” had rubbed off on you (I can’t recall much interaction from anyone other than “emerging folk” in your comments of late).
  You deny this, and so I apologise. The fault is likely all at my end. I’ll try to guard against misreading you.

• Andrew says:

  April 19, 2011 at 2:13 pm

  Ali – there actually IS some banter between new reformed and emerging church/fresh expressions and i am not denying it.
  but it is often a very friendly banter and something that we use to sharpen each other as iron sharpens iron.
  read my post on reformed dogs (suspicious) and emerging cats (curious) to see a bigger picture – its a post that suggests the ec owes a lot to Reformed thinking.
  http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2006/03/emergingmission.html

• phil wood says:

  April 20, 2011 at 12:29 am

  I’m still new enough at this blogging business to be a little unsure how these rankings work. Radref is lurking at 92 on the wikio list so I had better get my act together to take on the Reformed brigades. These lists are like opinion polls. The politicians all say they never read them but… I’m an Anabaptist blogger so no hope of competing with the emerging throng or the dry bones of Calvin. I’ve no idea what the top Anabaptist blog might be but would hazard a guess at Young Anabaptist Radicals.

• Miah says:

  April 21, 2011 at 7:51 am

  This is tiresome.

• mountainguy says:

  April 21, 2011 at 3:56 pm

  I guess Scott McKnight is anabaptist, but I thought like you that the top in the radical reformation arena would be YAR.
  Greetings from Argentina (though I’m colombian).
  Happy easter for y’all!

• phil wood says:

  April 21, 2011 at 6:14 pm

  I do keep in touch with Scott and the YAR people. Anabaptist blogging from a UK context still feels out on a limb. There’s a painful Anabaptist/Reformed history so it gives the current discussion a little edge that otherwise wouldn’t be there.

• Andrutzya says:

  May 12, 2012 at 5:38 am

  In my opinion Michael Hyatt’s blog should be on first place.I like his post very much.