CCBlogs thinking critically, living faithfully

There are several new bloggers in the network. Drop by and check them out:

Debra Dean Murphy, an Ekklesia Project board member and lectionary blogger, is on the religion faculty at West Virginia Wesleyan College. She blogs at Intersections.

Ryan Dueck is a Mennonite Brethren pastor in British Columbia. He calls himself a "hopeful skeptic" and blogs at Rumblings.

Virginia Episcopal priest Peter Carey is a contributor to Episcopal Cafe. He blogs at Santos Woodcarving Popsicles.

Thomas Bowen, a minister at Washington D.C.'s Shiloh Baptist Church, writes about religion and politics at Blogging to the Choir.

Baptist pastor Joshua Hearne blogs at Telling the Stories That Matter, which consists of lively retellings of saints' lives.

Eponymous blogger Beth A. Richardson is a United Methodist deacon, a writer/musician/photographer and the editor of upperroom.org.

Robert Minto, a philosophy major at Dordt College, is on his way to both seminary and law school. He blogs at The Veil Away.

Lutheran lawyer Obie Holmen lives in Northfield, Minnesota. He blogs at Spirit of a Liberal.

As the Deer - Chris Brundage is a pastor at a church in lower Michigan and a graduate of Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. He is ordained in the Presbyterian Church USA.

Life and Faith - Ernesto Tinajero is a graduate of Fuller Theological seminary. He is an editor and a poet.

Shuck and Jive - John Shuck the pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton.

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We have a number of exciting blogs that are new to our network of friends. Take a look:

Practice Resurrection - Tim Sean Youmans is a youth pastor in Shawnee Oklahoma and a song writer. His writing and his music are available at his blog, including a 17th century Lutheran hymn that he arranged in a modern folk setting. He has been blogging for four years.

De Veritate -Andrew Tatum is a student at Campbell Divinity School and the youth minister at Piney Grove Baptist Church.

The Connection - Dr. Tom Cheatham is a Presbyterian minister in Starkville, Mississippi.

Living Word by Word - Pam Fickenscher is an ELCA Lutheran pastor and mother of small children living in Minneapolis. Her blog reflects regularly on the lectionary texts as well as the tasks of ministry and mothering, with a particular interest in issues of sustainability.

Mainstream Baptist - Dr. Bruce Prescott is the host of "Religious Talk" on KREF radio and executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists. He is also the president of the Norman, Oklahoma Chapter of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Seeking First the Kingdom - Jimmy McCarty is a student at Claremont School of Theology pursuing an M.A. in Ethics with a concentration in Peace and Justice Studies. He is also a part-time minister at the Normandie Church of Christ in South Central Los Anglels and the manager of a non-profit transitional living center that serves single, homeless men.

We're adding a number of new blogs to our network. Here are a few of them. More will be coming online over the next week or so.

Mark Hogg of Edge Outreach, an organization that does trains and equips people to address water issues in our world, has launched a new blog called I Thirst.

Frank Moyer's blog The Seed Time.

Fred Anderson's blog The Rev's Rumbles.

Terri Pilarsky's blog Seeking Authentic Voice.

Kelvin Wright's blog Available Light.

Warren Hicks' blog Breaking Fast on the Beach.