I’m thrilled to be able to link to Kent Nerburn’s weblog with regularity. And now I’ve discovered another guy’s weblog that looks to be top-notch: Real Live Preacher. He’s an anonymous minister “… in South Texas who started a blog as a sort of personal refuge from his church–a confessional place where he could voice some of the doubt and confusion in his life…” — that, from radio interviewer and blogger Christopher Lydon who interviewed the preacher recently and blogged it. Some snips from the Preacher’s blog:
“My friend Tom called to tell me his life is falling apart… He’s a Baptist pastor in a town near mine. His wife came home recently and told him she wanted a divorce. They have three children, and he has to leave the house. He lost his family and his home in just a few hours. It gets worse. Most Baptist churches do not want a divorced person to be their pastor. Pastors can be greedy, manipulating sons-of-bitches, but they better not be divorced. It’s hypocritical and stupid, but that’s the way it is.”
And:
“… lots of people come to church hoping to find an easy way out of chaos. They want to know the future or make sense of the past. They hope that preachers like me will speak a mighty word and bring order out of the mess. I got news for you. I ain’t God. I’m just a guy with a bad haircut bouncing a ball around the sanctuary and talking to himself.”
So that makes two Real Joe-type bloggers to link to. Let me know if you find others.