Here they blog – they can do no other

I’ve never gone out of my way to “brand” myself as a “Lutheran blogger.” For starters, my Lutheran identity isn’t rooted very deeply, having been attending Lutheran churches for only about four and a half years. Secondly, my “religious identity,” such as it is, has been formed by a lot of non-Lutheran influences – mainly Catholic and Anglican I suppose, though I have been deeply impressed recently by reading some of Gerhard Forde’s works, as well as the classic Gritsch & Jenson book on Lutheranism. And I can hardly think of a finer exposition of evangelical (in the continental sense) Christianity than Luther’s On Christian Liberty. Thirdly, I never wanted this blog to be narrowly theological, since I am, at best, a dilettante.

My point being that while I may not be a Lutheran blogger as such, there are plenty of fine ones out there (though they may not all care to be pigeonholed as such either). Not all of these have made it on to the much-coveted VI blogroll (ha!), but they’re all worth sampling:

• Confessing Evangelical (a British Lutheran!)
• Blog of Concord (Pastor Chip Frontz)
• Here We Stand
• Lutheran Chik’s “L” Word Diary
• Versus Populum
• Dash Goes to Church
• Melancthon Sins Boldly
• Endlessly Rocking (I think he’s Lutheran)
• Lutheran Confessions
• Kevin G. Powell (Lutheran pastor in Canada)
• xphiles (Lutheranism and “emerging church” issues)
• I Am a Christian Too (faith & progressive politics)