{"id":2780,"date":"2007-04-26T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2780"},"modified":"2007-04-26T10:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T10:36:00","slug":"thinking-blogger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2780","title":{"rendered":"Thinking blogger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Patrik <\/a>tagged me\/ flattered me with this Thinking Blogger meme. <\/p>\n

These are the rules (from here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).<\/p>\n

I’m glad that the choices aren’t restricted to theology, as I’d find that a bit restrictive. Anyhow, five blogs that make me think:<\/p>\n

1. Rob Hopkins at Transition Culture<\/a> – Rob is a bit of a hero of mine, really, in that he has managed to get a community of 8000 people switched on to the implications of Peak Oil and what it means. If I can achieve half of what he has done then I’ll be happy. His blog is always a good read.<\/p>\n

2. Robert Rapier at R-Squared<\/a>. I was going to reference The Oil Drum itself, but I decided against that because it is a group project (and full of trolls in the comments). Robert’s voice is very sane and reasonable, and he offers a healthy dose of scepticism against some of the more outlandish Peak Oil voices, from a position of significant expertise. He’s one of those people who make you feel much cleverer after you’ve read something he’s written.<\/p>\n

3. *Christopher, now at Betwixt and Between<\/a> (previously at Bending the Rule). Christopher’s had a big influence on my thinking over the last two or three years, mainly on the obvious questions, but also on liturgical issues more generally. I find him a very congenial thinker, although sometimes I have to save up time to read him as his posts tend to the long side.<\/p>\n

4. Michael Spencer, the Internet Monk<\/a>, who comes at church questions from a completely opposite end of the spectrum to me, but ends up arguing for all sorts of things that I believe in. I imagine that loads of people are already familiar with him, but I only discovered him comparatively recently.<\/p>\n

5. Peter Chattaway, at FilmChat<\/a>. I read lots of film sites – one reason why my reviews tend to be so short, I feel that everything has already been said! – but this is my favourite, and he often makes me look at a film differently. I think that what I like most about him is the lack of stridency; he seems to be a man at peace with the world, and that comes through in his writing. He’s also writing from a Christian perspective, if that wasn’t obvious.<\/p>\n

So there we go.<\/p>\n

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