Blogroll Update

It's time I updated my blogroll. I use this as sort of my favorites list. These sites are places I visit regularly, particularly the Blogs and Forums, most of which I visit daily.

First, I've removed kendallball.net as Greg has decided to take a break from blogging. Hopefully he'll be back soon.

I've also removed Messy Christian. This was particularly difficult as she is still actively blogging and I had never 'de-linked' and active site before. No, Messy did not offend me, nor did I find anything particularly disagreeable there. It's simply that I found myself skipping over her link more often than not as I went through the blogroll each day, and when I did visit, I usually only skim the page. Since the purpose is to highlight sites I like to visit and regularly read, it seemed appropriate to remove the link.

Also gone is theologyblog.net. That site morphed long ago into Apollos.ws, an apollogetics resource. I haven't visited much at all since the switch, so I'm removing it too.

I've returned Mysterium Tremendum to the list, the personal blog of Jared of the Thinklings. He's returned from is hiatus and has turned it into a literary blog. I'm not sure in it's current form I'll keep it on the list as I'm not particularly interested in the art of writing, but I've missed it while he was away so I thought I'd give it a shot. He's got another personal blog, the contemplative Shizuka Blog. I've added that to the blogroll as well.

I've also added The Happy Husband, a site dedicated to championing the cause of marraige, a cause I wholeheartedly support. The 'About this blog' page says:

We live in a culture that is hostile to marriage as a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman. It celebrates weddings, yes, but it also celebrates divorces. Why wouldn't it? We hear more about happy divorces than we do about happy marriages. And even bitter divorces serve to reinforce the idea that marriage makes people miserable—just think how much worse off those pitiful people would be had they stayed married.

I'm married, and I love it. I think marriage is a divine gift, the natural state of mankind, the only condition in which all but a very few people can live full lives—the first thing in creation that was not good was man's aloneness. ... On this blog, I plan to celebrate marriage, to share my joy with others, and to communicate things I've learned about being married. Mostly, though, I hope to encourage and be encouraged by others who might feel oppressed by the pervasive negative sentiments in our culture and to provide an opportunity for discussion among others who love marriage or want to love marriage.

I've also added two links to blogs pursuing Christian unity. Clarke of ClarkeComments is a member of a Portland Oregon Church of Christ (no, not that one) who writes regularly about the various flavors of restoration movement churches, their differences and how they might be brought together. I didn't discover him, he discovered me. He's linked to me for some time now as one of a few links representing the ICOC. Christian Unity is the blog of Alan Rouse, an elder in the Atlanta Church of Christ. Alan's stated purpose for his blog is "I am searching for people with whom I should be having fellowship, but historically have not."

Lastly, I've added another Moveable Type link, Learning Movable Type.

Whew, that's a lot of changes. Give those sites a visit and see what you think.