August 07, 2005

New Neighbor #25

It's time again for the weekly "New Neighbor" feature. In this weekly post, I select one blog at random from the Evangelical Blogroll over there on the left and introduce the blog to you, my good reader, as best I can.

However, it may be time that Joe (from Evangelical Outpost) does an update. I know the blogroll shows up in a random order every time, and I like that -- however, it's getting harder and harder to find current blogs listed. For example, when I started browsing the blogs today, the first 28 on the list did not have a post in August. I know not everyone can update daily, but if you're not updating your blog at least once a week, you've got stale content, and, in my opinion, you're missing the point of blogging.

Well, that is what it is. Without further complaining, here's this week's New Neighbor:

Crossroads

(where faith and inquiry meet)

This blog is more in tune for the Sunday version of the new neighbor feature. It's stated purpose is

Discussion of the theological direction in which the church is moving.

Which exact church that is, I'm not exactly sure. I guess it's the church in general, in the US. The blog author, Diane, is blogging from Southern California, so there's certainly an argument to be made that she's not actually in America these days...

The blog is clean, fast, and well-designed. There's very little in the tons of add-ons that so many blogs (myself included) seem to find and plaster all over their front pages, slowing the page loads. But it's quality reading and the content is clearly the primary and sole focus there.

The biggest single recent feature of the blog (it's been running since June 2004), is a 22-part series on revival history. Each post is a long one, so this one will give you a lot of quality reading if you're interested in the history of revivals from 1610 to the present day. No, I'm not done reading it, but I will finish it this week.

Next up, she's started a new series about outsourcing, planning to follow the latest editorials in the New York Times. Good luck, I can't stand that filth from such people who hate God and America.

So, if you've got some time, why not head on over and read a new blog today?

Posted by: Ogre at 12:12 PM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 I like this new neighbor thing you do. I also can't stand it when I visit blogs and they don't update. I just recently cleaned up the blogburst blogroll. Some of them looked completely abandoned. I understand if you quit leaving it up for archive purposes, but they should at least put up a post that says they have quit.

Posted by: Jay at August 07, 2005 03:07 PM (BKqRl)

2 I understand the reasons for not posting, I'm just thinking that if you have a blog and you are posting less than once a week, I think that sort of defeats the whole idea of a blog. Then again, maybe I've got it all wrong myself...

Posted by: Ogre at August 07, 2005 05:51 PM (L0IGK)

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