Well, it's time to add a few more links to the left side collumn. There are a few places that I've been visiting regularly for a while.
Daniel at Alien Soil is a friend of the Thinklings. As regular readers know, I'm partial to Restoration movement folk, my church having its roots there somewhere back in it's tortured history. He's also from a Restoration Movement tradition, attending a Christian Church of Jasper in Jasper Tennessee Indiana. (Oops, sorry Daniel.) When his solo blog was announced at the Thinklings, I went and checked it out and have been coming back ever since. Besides, I just made it to the bonus points leader board.
Messy Christian is a blogger from Malaysia who attends a Lutheran church there. I was introduced to her during the election by Didymus as one place of many to get an international perspective on Bush's re-election (let's just say she wasn't thrilled). Once there I poked around and was hooked. She writes at times about being hurt by her old church and about others' hurt in theirs, a subject that tugs at my heart too.
I've also posted a couple of new website resources links. They're both Movabletype plug ins. The first is Scripturizer by Mean Dean at Heal Your Church Website. It's the nifty little tool that turns all of my (and yours in the comments) scripture references into Biblegateway links. If you want the same thing for Wordpress, see Justin at Radical Congruency, I think he has one working at his site.
The second is not the work of Mean Dean, but is endorsed by him. It's SCode from James Seng, the little numeric code spam-bot blocker thing I use. Though I've gotten a few spam comments through lately, I've realized that this thing really is working well. While others are talking about deleting hundreds of spam comments in the latest deluge, I had maybe a half a dozen.
Lastly, I've added a link to Serious Wheels, the site where I got the article on Jay Leno's Toronado. It's a great site with loads of car images. If you like to have a car on your desktop, this is the place to get it.
Whew. Now if you happen to be hitting the site right after I post this, give me a minute to update the link menu. :-)
I corrected the church info for Alien Soil. Turns out he's in Indiana, not Tennessee. The small, script font in the address on his church's web site looked like Tn instead of In to me.
Sorry, Daniel.