Jim Minker is one of the emerging church's best-kept secrets.  Come on, guys, we should all be reading him.  Something between a mystic and a really down-to-earth writer, Jim does deep and clear thinking on love, guilt, grace, death, and hell, and most of all, the meaning of being in Christ.  He runs a [Q and A] without coming across as an arrogant know-it-all, and his "you are there" [epistle rewrites] are not to be missed!  There's free original music too.  This site has an amazing amount of content.  Do yourself a favor: cozy up with your laptop and read The Shovel today.

 

Okay, if probing the heights and depths of the love of God in Christ is proving to be a little too overwhelming for just one sitting, you can come back down to terra firma, mind intact, with Metaphilm. Started in 1999 with THE seminal interpretation of the first Matrix
film, Metaphilm "doesn't review, but interprets" the movies, with a host of savvy writers providing penetrating and often humorous takes on a host of different kinds of movies.  Founder Read Mercer Schuchardt offers us a great example of a "by-a-Christian-but-its-not-like-the-site-has-said-the-sinners-prayer" kind've website; you can detect a divine ambiance, holy wit, and respect for life among many of the reviews, but its quite clear from its edge and verve that this site is not James Dobson approved.  What you will
find, though, are meaningful interpretations of films past and present that'll remind you of the very best of Lit Class.  See, for instance, the piece on Phone Booth to see what I mean. 

Mike Morrell just turned 25.  Though anticipating his quarter-life crisis, he still meticulously maintains Sites Unseen, his obsession of an eclectic web directory featuring over 3,000 hand-selected sites of an arcane Jesus-infused nature.