Category: Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator

Just to get a taste of what is available on the blogs covered by the Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator, let me give you a list of the most recent posts, in the order in which they appeared when I viewed the aggregator, with the exception of my own blogs. Note that blogs are randomized with each view.

• True Christianity excerpt
  Coops was Here provided a link to audio from a sermon on Biblical Christianity. I don’t know if it was my problem, or something with the audio on the site, but I had to go to the second link to get good audio.
• atheist apologetics
  Bruce Alderman blogged about atheist apologetics, looking at the 1932 essay by William Floyd titled The Mistakes of Jesus. Bruce is seriously unconvinced, and examines the logic at some length. This is a great discussion to get involved in.
• Proverbs 16 on Planning and Implementation
  Tom Sims of The Dream Factory looks at God’s sovereignty, humility and planning. This is short but with some good advice.
• Do God!
  On the newest entry in the blog aggregator, Oaks of God, we are encouraged to implement God’s goodness in the world. This one is hard to summarize, so you’ll have to read it!
• profiles of the bridal party: j norm & davey
  It looks like a wedding is planned in the physical proximity of Hit the Back Button to Move Forward, and we have profiles of the bridal party.
• Who is Jesus?
  On Monastic Mumblings, a Friar’s Journey, we’re asked who is Jesus, and what does that mean in practice?
• Open Thread
  This Gay Christian’s Blog has an open thread inviting various discussions.

I think that provides us with some interesting activity. I’m afraid I won’t have time to post a daily set of entries very often, but I thought it would be a good idea to take a current cross-section.

A little over a month ago (August 12, 2006) I started the Moderate Christian Blog Aggregator and the related blogroll. To get the ball rolling, I included my three blogs (three so I can segregate my areas of interest more easily) and one group blog to which I’m primary contributor. I also included my wife’s devotional group on Yahoo!. That made five initial sites. Since then we’ve added seven more. I certainly want this thing to get bigger, but I’m neither disappointed nor overwhelmed by that level of growth.

Here’s the blogroll as it is today:

I think that’s a pretty good gathering of sites for a start.

Note that there is no requirement in terms of linking for inclusion in the aggregator–just give me permission and your feed, using the form on the standards page, which also defines what I mean by moderate. It would be nice to have some links to the aggregator, but I believe it will gather those on its own. I do ask that those on the blogroll display the blogroll somewhere, either on a permanent page or their sidebar.

I am working on some better error control for the aggregator, and I also have a system that will simply list posts by date in the works, but I’m hesitant to implement it, because if we simply list posts by date, that heavily favors the frequently updated blogs, and in this case those are probably mine. Any feedback on this issue would be appreciated. At the moment I’m leaning toward implementing the second option, so a reader could choose simple listing by date, irrespective of source, or listing by source blog.

Thanks to all for participating, and I look forward to continued growth.