Steve Brown has a series of podcasts tied to his  book, Scandalous Freedom. Steve Brown believes and lives grace. He was one of the professors at RTS-Orlando who taught me a lot about grace and how astonishingly good the Good News is.   Hat Tip: Jollyblogger
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Brown Like Coffee is  a response to Blue Like Jazz.   I like Blue Like Jazz-- I thought Miller did a good job re-presenting sin and grace, and I loved the confession booth idea-- but no book is flawless. The peeps behind Brown Like Coffee are having some fun while pressing some serious points. Their website, though, is lame.
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Shannon Wright is a friend from Houston who has impressed me with her sharp intelligence and sharper tongue. She would describe herself as liberal with regard to politics, but she believes,  to the best of my knowledge, in Jesus in the way of  historic Christian orthodoxy.

Shannon is earning her MDiv at Harvard Divinity School, and she takes on Unitarian Universalists at HDS in this post.
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John S. Hayes, a 42 year-old coach of middle schoolers in Marietta, GA, was arrested for allegedly taking students on an anti-Christmas vandalism spree. According to another report, the coach "loaded several middle schoolers into the back of his pickup truck, and drove them around after dark and damaged Christmas displays. Christmas displays were smashed and slashed. The group even positioned several homeowners’ displays in X-rated configurations, including placing reindeer in sexual positions, WGCL reports."

A 42 year-old guy at night with middle school kids, defacing Christmas displays.  That's how he rolls.  John Hayes' parents must be so proud.
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Wyman Richardson summarizes the Martyrdom of Polycarp.

Jeremy Pierce muses about Gordon Hugenberger's belief that sex is the constitutive act of marriage.

Cynthia Nielsen, who is as smart as they come, posts on Embodied Human Beings and Our Gravitation Towards Ceremony and Ritual. 

James K.A. Smith summarizes his top 10 books of 2007, two per post.  In this post he writes about Russell Kirk's biography of Edmund Burke, the father of conservative social thought.