I'm just like Kathy Griffin!

Does this mean I'll get my own show?

Top 100 Church Blogs, with bonuses

From the Church Relevance site:

There are hundreds of great church blogs and ministry blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which church blogs everyone else is reading?

I do, which is why I have compiled a list of the world’s top church blogs.

Some focus exclusively on ministry, while others are more like theology blogs. Regardless of how you label them, these are the world’s most popular church blogs written by many of today’s most influential church leaders, theologians, and Christ followers.

Evangelical Outpost

Joe Carter has returned. And he's not alone.

Matthew Anderson—one of my oldest blog buddies—will be joining me as a senior editor. Together we hope to help shape these young writers, honing their writing and reasoning skills and preparing them to provide thoughtful reflections on culture, politics, and religion from an evangelical Christian worldview. Our goal is to make EO an incubator for developing intriguing opinions and introducing interesting individuals.

In the process, we plan to bring you an engaging and entertaining mix of content, from book reviews and essays to opinion pieces and link lists (i.e., the return of 33 Things) and much, much more. We especially want to provide critical reflection on matters—daycare, cremation, etc.—that few of us stop to consider. Most of all, though, we plan to introduce you to interesting people—our contributors, our commenters, and our friends in the community of Christian bloggers.

2008 Weblog Awards

Have you voted yet? You have until 5:00 PM EST (or 4:00 PM, where I live) on Tuesday, January 13.

Here a few of the categories I voted in:

• Best Blog: Boing Boing
• Best Individual Blogger: The Anchoress
• Best Liberal Blog: Talking Points Memo
• Best Conservative Blog: RedState
• Best Diarist: Dooce

the dance of worship

Los, who has been on my blogroll for a while now, gets a link from Andrew Sullivan for this post.

Challies Blog Tour

Tim Challies is "touring" several blogs to promote his book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment. The tour runs from January 7 through January 18, and he's visiting quite the eclectic list. Challies' book stirred up quite a discussion at Justin Taylor's place.

Brent, the weekly town crier

Brent has a lot of links this week, including several top 2007 lists, which I always enjoy perusing.

2007 [weblog] awards

Have you voted? Polls close tomorrow (Thursday, November 8) at 5:00 PM EST (2:00 PM PST). Go now.

Some of my picks:

• Best Blog - The Presurfer
• Best Individual Blog - Glenn Reynolds
• Best Online Community - Slashdot
• Best Liberal Blog - Talking Points Memo (everything else is unreadable and/or ridiculously hysterical)
• Best Conservative Blog - Powerline (ditto)
• Best Political Coverage - RealClearPolitics
• Best Law Blog - Volokh Conspiracy
• Best Medical/Health Issues Blog - Kevin, M.D. Medical Weblog
• Best Religious Blog - Evangelical Outpost
• Best Pet Blog - I Can Has Cheezburger

my life on the C-list

You know what this means: you've got to do what you can to raise me up to B-list level. Get to it.

Also while I'm on hiatus...

Let me leave you with some things to check out and/or ponder.

• Whatever happened to the Holy Spirit? Dan Edelen wants to know.
• Kill the bear!
• According to this Wikipedia article, the upcoming episode of Lost, "The Man from Tallahassee", will feature conversations between Locke and Ben. Will Locke ask a question I would ask if I were him - "If you saw our plane fall from the sky, why did you decide to 'infiltrate' us, lie to us, and harm us when you should have come to help us?" Then again, it's such an obvious and giving-away-the-show-storyline question that there's no way any character will ask that (and no Other would directly answer it).
• I was a fan of pro wrestling back in the early 1980's. Those were the glory days of Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, and WrestleMania III. I felt very sad reading this article about the current use of steroids by some pro wrestlers. (When I worked as a university hall director a few years ago, one of my resident advisors was a niece of this wrestler - he claims to be a Christian.)
• Maybe the less you know about aliens, the better.
• Joe Carter lists 10 things we've forgotten about the Iraq war. He also gives a scathing critique of Jim Wallis' views on Darfur (for God's sake, save them!) and Iraq (saving them offends God!).
• Improbably, I'm a fan of Bravo's Project Runway. There will be a season four. Style guru Tim Gunn has a book coming out - and in case you hadn't noticed, Gunn himself is out as well.
• I'll believe this about a Real World cast when I see it. Every season showcases nothing but the same sex-crazed, constantly-intoxicated 20-somethings who fight about sex and alcohol - they're just in a different city each season. RW stopped being interesting after San Francisco, and I pity the poor people who've only seen it from Las Vegas on.
• Mark Driscoll reveals a bit of himself with this post. Frank Turk brings up important points on one aspect of Driscoll's post: the apparent need for multiple services and video broadcasting. iMonk talked to Noel Heikkinen about it.
• I probably shouldn't have, but I chuckled at reading this bumper sticker.

On Hiatus

I'll be taking a break from blogging for a bit.

While I'm tanning myself in sunny Florida, be sure to check out these sites. They are some of my favorites:

• Ann Althouse
• Cindy Swanson
• Dan Edelen
• Get Religion
• Joe Carter
• Justin Taylor
• La Shawn Barber (she's also on hiatus, but check her out anyway!)
• Mark Daniels
• Mark Roberts
• Pyromaniacs

Stop by to see my relations, too:

• Adam Caldwell
• Dustin Bryson

I was saddened to learn that fellow DCHS and Cedarville alum Brian Orme is discontinuing his blog. He will be missed!