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what blogs are in your reader

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I'm at a bit of a standstill right now with blogging.  I'm doing more reading and I've had less time to write and so I'm wondering:

What blog(s) do you follow religiously?  Who are your favorite bloggers?

In no particular order, I regularly check:
1. Rachel Held Evans
2. Jesus Creed
3. Justin Buzzard
4. Quadrilateral Thoughts
5. Jamie - The Very Worst Missionary
6. Our Beautiful Mission - It would be really awesome if all my friends and family would check this out.  It would be even cooler if someone would foot the bill and buy them a domain name and host and set them up with a rad website for 5 years!

Least favorite?


I'd say Mark Driscoll's blog and The Gospel Coalition.  There's some good stuff there...sometimes, but mostly I just stay away.


Which bloggers make you think the most?


Rachel Held Evans...hands down.  She's a deep thinker who can look at many different sides of an issue in the same way a jeweler looks at a diamond from different angles.


What blogs out there are beautifully done?  (Maybe the content stinks, but it is aesthetically eye appealing).


This one's a tough one, but I'm going with Carin Griffith's blog Learning As I Go.  Carin was someone I knew from college and she's a terrific mother and educator.  Her blog is really well done and she's a bit of a font freak (not my words...hers), so I know she spends a lot of time tweaking her blog in order to make it look just right. 


What bloggers did you used to follow but now no longer do?  What's changed between now and then?


I used to regularly check Jon Acuff's blog What Christians Like, but that was before his book and before he became famous.

father's day lament

So Father's Day is just two days away and while I don't have time at the moment to tell all of you what my father means to me (but I will...I promise), I thought I'd pull this out of the archives to share.  Enjoy!

Lamentations of the Father

For the fathers out there - can you relate?