i haven’t kept a blogroll on my site. no real reason, i suppose. there are SO many blogs i’d love to read everyday. but the problem is, i actually read them. and if i have hundreds of blogs in my reader, i’d spend WAY too much time on them. so i poke around from time to time and read others (mostly youth ministry blogs). but these are the blogs in my bloglines that i look at a couple times a day:

uncategorized blogs
Bob Carlton (bob is a good friend who blogs about a wide variety of subjects: spirituality, politics, personal stuff)
crowder’s blog (david’s personal blog)
(the more official band blog — mostly posts by mike hogan)
Dave Barry’s Blog (my favorite humorist — provides much of the fodder for funny links on my blog)
dave palmer (close friend and great thinker. dave’s blog has a lot of liberal politics)
Think Christian (a blog by a collection of thinkers. they’re great at pointing to interesting stuff in the christian blogosphere and internet)
Finding Rhythm (the personal blog of zach lind, the drummer from the band jimmy eat world)
ragamuffin diva (claudia burney’s blog. i love her writing)
steve case (good friend and ys author)
Jesus Creed (scot mcknight’s blog is my daily theology diet)
Mark Dowds (close friend and ys consultant)
paul chambers (paul is a good friend and the director of a retreat center on the island of guernsey)

my church’s youth pastors
brian berry (our high school pastor)
josh treece (our middle school pastor)

emerging church blogs
Mark Riddle’s Blog (riddle is a youth worker who loves the emerging church)
Mike King (mike is a contemplative gadfly, a good friend, and the director of youth front)
lilly’s pad (lilly loves the church and loves to play with contemplative stuff in youth ministry)
TallSkinnyKiwi (andrew jones blog — one of the best emerging church blogs; and provides me a non-u.s. perspective)
jonnybaker (good friend and british emerging church leader)
Doug Pagitt’s Blog (doug’s blog used to be one of the most substantive emerging church blogs, but he’s moved most of his content to podcasts, which i don’t usually take the time to listen to)
emergent-us (the official blog of emergent)
emergesque (stephen shields, of faith maps, provides SO much great stuff about faith, church, the internet, and the emerging church)
Theoblogy (good friend tony jones’ blog)
Vintage Faith (good friend dan kimball’s blog)

co-workers
The long road to parenthood (jen and jay howver’s blog about their adoption process)
mindi godfrey (mins is a co-worker and one of my wife’s closest friends)
Renee Altson (renee’s more public blog, part of infuze magazine)
ianua, by renee altson (renee’s main blog — personal stuff)
Walking through the fog (jamie works at zondervan, on ys product)

junior high summit (these are all blogs from some of my friends who attend the junior high pastors summit every year)
alan ramsey
andy jack
jason raitz
jim candy
johnny scott
kurt johnston
alan mercer
sean meade