OK, now that I've trimmed the blogroll a bit, it's time to add to it. Here are a few new sites to the list:
Stories about God
This site from Mike Boyink has enormous potential, I think. It's in a bit of a slump right now, as Mike has admitted, but it's a tremendous idea. Even though there's been no new content since December, I'm linking it to show my support for the site and hoping that others will be inspired to go tell their stories. Not to mention to hopefully prod Mike to put some effort into it (hint, hint) We all have stories. Stories that will inspire others and shine the light on God's amazing goodness. Those stories need to be told.
Boyink Interactive
Mike Boyink's business site and blog about web design. Mike wrote an amazing piece at Heal Your Church Website on what a church web site should be a while back (which lead to Stories about God). I've been popping in his site occasionally ever since. He's a car nut too, with a '64 Jeep CJ6 and a '66 Rambler.
Stephen Meeks
Stephen is a frequent contributer to the New Wineskins blog and I love his posts. So I looked him up and found that he had a blog of his own. He lives on a farm and writes a lot about the spiritual insights gained from that experience.
Preacher Mike
I'm probably one of the last Church of Christ bloggers to link to Mike Cope's blog. I see his name everywhere on COC blogs and he's always spoken of with respect. He's the preaching minister (I think) at the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas.
Nothing Important To.us
This is the blog of fellow ICOC member from the north east, Jeff Morris - aka Danny Kaye. Jeff's his real name, but he tends to comment as Danny at different blogs. I came across Jeff's blog not through any ICOC or COC channels, but from seeing his comments at the Thinklings.
Unveiled Face
Mick is from Australia and a member of an ICOC church, or at least what used to be one. He comes by here every now and again to leave a comment. What's nice about his blog is that he's blended into the blog community. His site does not (unlike mine to often) deal with ICOC issues nor does he talk about it much. He's building bridges into the rest of the community, which is a good thing I think.
True Delta
I came across this via Autoblog and I love his blunt analysis of consumer automotive research like Consumer Reports and JD Power. He's started an ambitious effort at a new way of gathering and analyzing automotive reliability data. Sounds promising. He's also written over 400 reviews, mostly of cars, at epinions.
That's enough for now.
Thanks for the linkage and the plug, Doug.
I never actually thought of posting a plug for the newly added links on my sidebar. Great Idea!
Thanks, I've been doing that since the begining. If you look at my blogroll, there's a '?' link next to each listing. That will take you to the 'intro' for each item. Virusdoc and Country Keepers are two of the earliest entries.
The reason I did this is that as I went to various blogs, I often wondered "Why did these folks link who they did?" and never had any way to find out. I decided to provide a way on my site.
Thanks for comments and the links!
Just FYI -
The Rambler is for sale - and most likely sold. Just not enough time for more than one vehicle project. Once it's gone I'll pull that section of my site.
Don't look for changes to SAG anytime soon - while it pains me to look at it languishing I have both the busiest spring work-wise and house-wise ever (not to mention getting the Jeep back on the road).
Maybe sometime late summer I can give the site a refresh/repurposing. I was kicking around the notion of something more "digg-like" where people can spot Stories About God on the web, and submit links to them and comment on them. Dunno yet...still waiting for a good strong vision of what the site should be.
I thought the Rambler was to be a 'daily driver' instead of a project. Of coures, any car that old is a project whether you drive it regularly or not.
I understand about SAG and your other priorities. In the mean time, I guess we can still encourage folks to go submit their stories, eh? Maybe we can generate some traffic even as is.
Yeah, it was supposed to be a DD...but we don't honestly need two cars..and without ever getting the heat working and the windows sealed up it pretty much became a beach cruiser fill-in for the Jeep.
Simplify...simplify...is our new mantra...;)
Thanks for the link :)
Yes, I am trying to build bridges (especially with those Christians from whom I/we can learn the most).
However, as you can probably imagine, there is quite a cost to going down that path...
I live at 57135 Commonwealth in Seattle. Been up here before?