WWJB -- What Would Jesus Blog?
Following blog trends? Pick up Hugh Hewitt's God Blog Con I (being facilitated by SmartChristianBlog ) for some interesting speculation. Seems as if a whole crop of Evangelical Christian blogs have taken root and gained critical readership.
Readership enough to have the pesky MSM shaking in their shoes? Well, with the number of EC's who turned out for the last election, as well as the boo-yow that unaffiliated bloggers put down on Rathergate...
Simply scroll down the left side of Hewitt's main page under the heading "God Squad" and link to a few. Refreshingly, these blogs aren't frothing (a la street preacher) about the end of the world or telling anyone they're destined for the fires of hey-yell. This is smart, well-composed, thoughtful blogging... with a mission statement.
Blog themes range from apologetics, Pastored sites, sites for teens, politics, missionary work, and on and on. Evangelical Underground is even hosting an awards event for the best EC blogs. And E-Involved is exploring the exact title of this post -- no, seriously.
I for one hope Hewitt's EC blog hypothesis is correct.
Two reasons:
A) It shatters the notion that EC's are a bunch of naive simpletons who have no concept of the world beyond the stained-glass windows. And it forces non-EC's (and the MSM who spies on emerging demographics) to take EC's out of the box and look at them a little harder. It also forces EC's to look at each other. Something that is sadly, done far too scarcely.
B) It gives me a fresh perspective when my faith is falling down. (For more on this point, read my "Heroes" post.)
And if nothing else, it gives me someone else to argue with. Which is almost always worth it.
Readership enough to have the pesky MSM shaking in their shoes? Well, with the number of EC's who turned out for the last election, as well as the boo-yow that unaffiliated bloggers put down on Rathergate...
Simply scroll down the left side of Hewitt's main page under the heading "God Squad" and link to a few. Refreshingly, these blogs aren't frothing (a la street preacher) about the end of the world or telling anyone they're destined for the fires of hey-yell. This is smart, well-composed, thoughtful blogging... with a mission statement.
Blog themes range from apologetics, Pastored sites, sites for teens, politics, missionary work, and on and on. Evangelical Underground is even hosting an awards event for the best EC blogs. And E-Involved is exploring the exact title of this post -- no, seriously.
I for one hope Hewitt's EC blog hypothesis is correct.
Two reasons:
A) It shatters the notion that EC's are a bunch of naive simpletons who have no concept of the world beyond the stained-glass windows. And it forces non-EC's (and the MSM who spies on emerging demographics) to take EC's out of the box and look at them a little harder. It also forces EC's to look at each other. Something that is sadly, done far too scarcely.
B) It gives me a fresh perspective when my faith is falling down. (For more on this point, read my "Heroes" post.)
And if nothing else, it gives me someone else to argue with. Which is almost always worth it.
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