In the sub-division of the god-blogs where Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox and ‘tweeners exist, there are sub-sub-divisions.

relapsed catholic coined the term St. Blog’s which is a list of Catholic blogs from various and sundry places. I really liked this review of St. Blog’s in Commonweal.

Intrigued by the genre, I set out to explore the most visible precincts of what is known as St. Blog’s Parish—the moniker applied to the loose collection of Catholic blogs. I began reading with the expectation that all sites would exhibit the thoughtfulness and charity of Peter Nixon’s. This naiveté was quickly dispelled when I realized the diversity—and varying quality—of Catholic blogs. This diversity is not, unfortunately, a mirror of the wider church. St. Blog’s, with some exceptions, tilts decidedly to the conservative side of the Catholic culture wars.

Not to be outdone by a long shot, evangelicals from various and sundry places with a heavy emphasis on the US scene, formed The Blogdom of God a few months ago.
I think they might well be due for a tough review soon too.
And I’d like to see a good non-involved writer do it.
Some of the Blogdom crew make some conservative Catholic bloggers look like hells angels.

There are few Orthodox blogs online, currently leading the charge is Karl Thienes of St. Stephen’s Musing and I guess he’d be the one to ask about his fellow bloggers of similar ilk. I’m not sure there are enough of them to warrent the kind of reviews St. Blog’s gets. (I count about 13)

At some stage, other in-house journals are going to give blogs a look see.

Meantime, I wandered over to Blogstreet the other day, only to find out my ‘neighbourhood’ has changed significantly since the um, er, incident in December-January last year. I’m not sure I’m at all comfortable in the new ‘neighbourhood.’ The blogosphere is getting bigger, and my neighbouhood has not only shrunk, it’s become rather inclusive.
It’s like I’ve acquiesed to some unspoken rule about god-blogs and wound up in the ‘burbs. Maybe it’s time to move, although in all fairness to Blogstreet they track my blogroll, not my reading habits.

It is a tool for discovering other blogs which are similar to a blog.
For Blog Authors, their Neighborhood is a pool of blogs to track. Treat it as a list of blogs you *should* be knowing about.
For Readers, it helps them to find more blogs similar to a blog they have liked.
The Blog Neighbourhood groups together blogs of a similar nature, allowing you to find other bloggers writing about the same kind of things.

The natural question is how does BlogStreet decide whats related to what. Well, its a God gift. More seriously, we take into account whom you blogroll and who blogrolls you, add to that a few other factors, give weightage to all the factors and there it is - the Neighborhood.

I mentioned recently that Mikao’s World was doing a survey of religious blogs for course work at her college. I was delighted to be asked to take part.
I found some of the questions similar to e-Church’s survey, the language and assumptions were very evangelical.
What I don’t know yet is how these two bloggers ‘picked’ people to survey.

Some bloggers are quite comfortable being slotted by denomination and political/polity labels. I’m not.
I identify as a god-blogger and a Canadian.
I’d be happy to have a non-involved reviewer take a hard look at this blog.
A kind of air-check of sorts.

For example, if a Catholic traditionalist surveyed god-blogs, would Protestants find themselves lost in the language? If evangelicals chose to survey St. Blog’s, would the language have meaning?
On our blogs, I don’t think it has too. Your blog, your words, your faith-speak.
Survey’s are quite another matter.
Media articles will always be a wild card, and I think that is a good thing.

Where am I going with this?
It’s good to see non-bloggers write on the genre.
In-house or not.
I think it can help keep god-bloggers of all stripes from taking ourselves too seriously.