The BBOV: Did You Think I'd Forgotten? The Big Blogroll O' Vark®™©

Too many days have passed since the last update of the BBOV. However, the time has now come, so let's get on with addressing the changes to the Big Blogroll O' Vark®™© — meeting the newcomers, noting the changed URL, and saying "Sayonara," to our dear departed. Then you can kick back with me and wait for the next round of people to tell me that I forgot their blogs, so I can (again) ask, "Did you tell me?"

If you're not sure what to make of the BBOV or wonder about the benefits of being listed and of listing others' blogs, please read the first three links under Aurous Effluence in the sidebar. Those who'd like the Big Blogroll O' Vark®™© can either email me or copy the list from the Alley's source code (click View | Page Source or Control+U in Firefox or View | Source in Internet Explorer).

Finally, you can see how many blogs I ended up removing. If you own(ed) one of these, drop me a line if you start up again or begin a new blog. I'd be more than happy to list you again.

BRAND NEW TO THE BBOV

Included here are sixteen additions to two different sections of the blogroll.

  Confessional Lutherans
    The Abrahamsons
    Pastor Mason Beecroft
    Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary
    Concordian Sisters of Perpetual Parturition
    The Crowned Ones — back after a break
    The 14th Warrior
    Lest Every Man Be Blind
    The Long and Crunchy Road
    Lvtheranvs Latine Profitens
    Mystery of the Faith
    Palm Sundays
    Simil Justis et Pecatur — dear old friends of Vark
    Socratic Stammtisch
    Super-Sonic Platonic — from the author of Our Seneca
    Rev. Tucher

  Other Blogs
    Melanie Francis' Blog: Here I Stand

CHANGED — BUT STILL RECOGNIZABLE

These have some differences in URL, blog name, or both.

    The Albino Peacock — new URL
    Cleveland Confessional Lutheranism — slight name change: added "-ism"
    Concordia Seminary Institute on Lay Vocation — was Uwe Siemon-Netto
    Crafty Wright's — URL and name change; was The Crafty Wright's
    Cranach: The Blog of Veith — new URL
    Cross+Wise — URL; drop "Blog" from name
    LSB Development Team — moved to Recommended Lutheran Sites
    NightlyKnitter's LotzaStitches — was LotzaStitches
    St. Antony's Cave — corrected spelling from Anthony
    Die Schreiben von Schreiber — corrected gender from Das
    Uvulapie's Girl — was Hoffman Homemaker

REMOVED

Here's one way to shrink an unwieldy list: The thirty-five (35!) members of this group have either gone missing or else they're extremely out of date. Dates listed show the most recent updates.

    Anxious Contentment — 19 October 2006
    Beckfest — hijacked
    Beefstew-inator's Blog — 22 May 2006
    By the Rivers of Babylon — 404
    Chaplain to the World — update: see next post
    Confessions of a Young Lutheran — 3 August 2006
    Date-Dabitur
    Bunnie Diehl: If you don't like it, just go away — she went away, instead
    Eating Words
    Etz's View of the World — 18 June 2007
    God Is the Pilot — 23 October 2006
    Life at Seminary — 28 September 2006
    Long Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran — 11 February 2007
    Lutheran Man — 26 August 2007
    Lutheran Survivor — 404; Ironic, eh?
    Not Quite Art, Not Quite Living — not quite updated, either (12 January 2007)
    Post-Emergent — 25 May 2006
    Properly Speaking — 5 April 2007
    The Provincial Life — 22 August 2006
    Random Thoughts of a Confessional Lutheran — 9 April 2007
    The Ranting Reverend — 1 November 2006
    Render Unto Caesar — 404
    Return of the Prodigal Blogger — prodigal again (lapsed back into atheism)
    Sacred Meditations — 17 January 2007
    St. Charles Place — 404
    Christina Schellenbach — 31 October 2007
    Michael Schuermann
    Sethanized Propaganda — 16 February 2007
    Seward Snow Dog — 11 September 2006
    Ten Days Faithful — 29 May 2007
    Theologically - Incorrect — 8 November 2006
    Theophilus' Inferno — 10 May 2007
    Thoughts of Steven — 404
    Unaltered Lutheran — hijacked
    The Unknown Lutheran — privatized

TIMELESS, IF NOT TIMELY

I didn't want to remove this next batch. They're good references, good friends, or both, and I hope that they'll start blogging again. If World Magazine hadn't have completely dropped her, I'd have Bunnie Diehl listed among these fine folk.

    Blog My Soul
    Cantor's Padded Balcony
    Pastor Cota's Blog
    The Crazy Lutheran — illness in the family
    Διαθηκη — on hiatus, but see The Abrahamsons
    Euchrestos
    First British Lutheran Blog Ever
    Pastor Keith GeRue — good sermon archive
    The Grateful Christian
    Our Seneca — now he's into Plato

IN CONCLUSION

For these and all others enrolled in the BBOV, links back are certainly appreciated. And don't forget that all of those listed benefit when you use the entire blogroll. Also, if you'd like to graphically point to the Alley and the Big Blogroll O' Vark®™©, you may use the above design from St. Charles Place (from before St. Charles left our midst) or one of these blog buttons:

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Each of these buttons measures 80x15 pixels. Should you choose to use one, please link back to either the main Aardvark Alley URL or else to the post What Is the BBOV.

Finally, if you own or know of a Lutheran blog demonstrating a quia confessional subscription and would like me to consider it for inclusion, please leave a comment. And again, for more information about why this stuff benefits confessional Lutheran blogging, morality, and other worthwhile endeavors, please check out the first three links under Aurous Effluence in the sidebar.

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