I’m getting ready to revamp, though, and only include places where I actually find value. I’d also like to include a brief description of the blog, but I can’t figure out how to do it without consuming too much space. I just know that when I see my blog linked from somewhere, the name of it, which I picked on a whim not knowing what a big part of my life it would end up being, says nothing about what I write.

I also find some common ground in the idea that you discuss things online you never talk about IRL. This is one of the reasons why I love the internet.

You also said, “Rejecting someone’s confession of faith is a serious matter.” No kidding. I have seen this done at another blog, and I find it unbelievable. I mean, wow, who would have the nerve to do that? When I spoke up, though, I was shouted down. Me, I have enough worries about my own walk; I have no need to judge someone else’s.

I appreciate your blog. I’ve found it to be very educational.

Great topic and one about which I’ve thought a great deal with no clarity: I link to blogs that interest me and diversity comes into play. E.g., I link to Denny Burk who differs with me on almost everything but I’m curious to see what he’s saying and he’s a good guy. I like to Steve McCoy because I’ve met him but mostly because he’s a young pastor whom I admire for the challenge of pastoring a small church with a family who has a robust commitment to a theological approach to pastoring.

But, Kris uses my blogroll to read blogs and often informs me that “so and so” is not writing often enough — remove him/her — or some other reason. I always feel bad about removing someone so I usually just leave them on the blogroll.

Bad idea, in my judgment, to think of your blogroll of folks you endorse. I endorse Bible and the Great Orthodox Tradition.

Example: one fairly prominent Lutheran blogger asked me to include them on my blogroll. I did so, but then at a later date removed them, simply because I didn’t happen to read their site any more (only so many hours in the day, etc.). I then got a slightly wounded email from them asking why I had done this, and as a result I added them back in again.

When I moved site (*cough*, *hint*, etc :-)) last month, I finally dropped them (along with a number of other blogs) once and for all, because I decided my blogroll should consist only of sites I actually read, not just sites I vaguely approve of from a distance. I put up a post emphasising (without naming names) that exclusion was not a value judgment but simply a reflection of what I happened to read.

Others, however, prefer to have comprehensive blogrolls covering every blog that they consider to fall within a particular “class” of which they approve. I’m sure there’s a place for that - it’s just not on my sidebar.