Rich Tatum, formerly a web designer at Christianity Today, has a penchant for organizing things. And being a Pentecostal blogger, he’s been organizing the “pneumasphere” for a while now, and providing a valuable service in the process. He’s got the most comprehensive list of quality charismatic bloggers available, and any number of tools to filter through them. Most recently, he’s come up with a list of the top 20 most influential pneumabloggers, based on Technorati rankings. No, I’m not in the top 20. But I was shocked to discover that I didn’t even recognize most of the people who are.
So I scanned through some of them, and found some interesting posts I thought I’d share:
The Gospel is Their Home
Rob Wilkerson on Theology and Experience
One More Added to the Kingdom
A story of the Holy Spirit working in a way that I really miss.
Dramatic Drop in Murder after Prayer
In July of last year, the Christian Defense Coalition held a 24-hour prayer meeting in Washington, DC. Six months later, the murder rate is down 27%. Coincidence?
If a human author wrote a book explaining, perhaps, his life, and then I were to call up this author and want to talk further with him about what he wrote, I would think it very bizarre if the author only answered me with quotes from his book, never saying anything else, but finding little snippets to reply to me from the published work. It would be very awkward and not very personal. I would wonder about the author and how much he really wanted to interact with me.
I remember when some Russian believers emigrated to our neighborhood from the old Soviet Union where they were persecuted. We “adopted” them but when we first met we had no means of communicating with each other. The only way we figured out to communicate was to use each other’s bibles (theirs in Russian and ours in English) to point out our general intents and feelings. It was well-meaning, but limited. (We put a scripture citation on their birthday cake and they read it and cried!)
Hey, Kyle,
Thanks for the great write-up and the link-love!
For what it’s worth, you were ranked #29, immediately after Travis Johnson, and just before Amy Maxwell. So, you can proudly say you’re currently in the top 30!
Great blog, by the way, keep up the good work!
Rich BlogRodent
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