I’ve been keeping up with my daily blog reads and there’s so much going on that I wanted to mention a few of the highlights to my readers.

From the Conservative Blog for Peace

The Young Fogey posts on the reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church. This is joyous news for all who long for the reunification of the Catholic faithful.

He’s been posting so many good links and reads of late that it’s difficult to keep up. Even so, keep up I do. I highly recommend people read what he posts. The combination of his genteel, classically liberal style, and his balanced and studied Christian witness make his the first site I visit each day.

From blogs4God

They’re back.

Dean Peters has done a remarkable job or re-engineering blogs4God. He found the technology (Pligg) and the style best suited to capturing Christian witness in bloggerland.

No doubt its taken awhile, but the wait has been worth it!

Dean’s other site, Heal Your Church Website has also been revamped.

Whether you are a church or a witness, if you care about your on-line presence, take heed.

His recent posts on Bab’tist Churches was funny (sort of in a sad sense) and a wake-up call to the church webmasters among us (yes, I’m one) who fail to proof and re-proof their work. I’ve taken Dean’s counsel seriously (as far as I’m able with my technical skills) and our parish has benefited.

I also offer up my prayers for Dean and his family. Dean’s father was called home to the Lord last week. Eternal rest grant unto him O Lord!

From Faith and Theology

Who knew?

Say theology and a flood of images pass through your mind (or maybe not). Anyway, the images I get are of disaffected academics with some relationship to God, trying to disprove Him, disrupt all else, and de-construct so they can reconstruct.

It is easy to think that way, if you rely on a caricature modeled after folks like Hans Kung. But anyway…

Benjamin Myers of the Faith and Theology Blog sets all that to rest.

What he and his collaborators post is amazing, insightful, easily digestible, and actually provides some insight, some glimpse of God, to common folks like me.

His postings come at you in layers, from the first insight to the deep pondering.

I can’t get enough of Propositions by Kim Fabricius, and the recent Prayer in a time of war by George Hunsinger is something that should be said daily.

Think theology is for academicians? Read Ben Myers blog, and you may very well see our Lord in ways you haven’t yet experienced.

And the rest

My other daily reads come from different Catholic traditions, and represent a cross section of what I see as very good, wholesome, and positive in blogs. They are:

• Bonfire of the Vanities
• Dappled Things
• Orthodixie
• Pontifications
• Sarx (Huw Raphael)
• Western Orthodoxy

They all fit into the model proposed in the recent posts on blog level ecumenism.

No one denies who they are, their faith or tradition, yet they are open to discussion, understanding, and to common witness.

Technology is not immune to God, and in the hands of His servants can do amazing things. Let’s pray that it continues to work for the building up of the one body of Christ.