Apparently my blogging drivel inspires some people, because my fellow Scriber has dubbed my one of a handful of subversive bloggers! Here is how he defines a subversive blogger:

Subversive bloggers are unsatisfied with the status quo, whether in church, politics, economics or any other power-laden institution, and they are searching for (and blogging about) what is new (or a “return to”) – even though it may be labeled as sacrilege, dangerous, or subversive.

I’m honored (thanks Jake!) for this little act, because I’ve begun to wonder why the hell I should continue with this thing. I mean it’s been a good space at times to verbal vomit my frustrations and thoughts, but as of late the ink well’s been bone dry and I’ve found little inspiration for continuing with this thing called writing, if you can call it that.

So I guess this act of encouragement has come at the right time…

I nominate the following:

1. Jesus the Radical Pastor by John Frye, my friend and mentor
2. Real Live Preacher by RLP
3. Swinging From The Vine by fellow Scriber Makeesha Fisher
4. Calacirian by fellow Scriber Sonja
5. Internet Monk by blogging stud Michael Spencer

The rules of participation are pretty straightforward:

1. If you are tagged, write a post with links to five subversive blogs.
2. Link back to this post on JakeBouma.com so people can easily find the origin of the meme.
3. Optional: Proudly display the “Subversive Blogger Award” somewhere on your blog (images below) with a link to the post that you wrote.

And as Jake says, the award is meant to be encouragement to keep blogging, so I hope I encourage these five to for sure keep doing what they do, because they kick ass!