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$\"\"$ Carmen Andres<\/a> kindly chose me as one of her five blogs that make her think and make her day. Thanks Carmen! Now all I have to do is whittle down my own list to a mere five and pass on the honor\u2026and that\u2019s not easy! But I will choose five, as I must\u2026<\/p>\n

Thoughts in a Haystack<\/a>
Find and Ye Shall Seek<\/a>
Forbidden Gospels<\/a>
Ponderings on a Faith Journey<\/a><\/a>
Metacatholic<\/a><\/p>\n

And now, here are the runners up: Chrisendom<\/a>, Abnormal Interests<\/a>, A Guy In The Pew<\/a>, Liberal Pastor in Burnsville<\/a>, An Evangelical Dialogue on Evolution<\/a>, Earliest Christian History<\/a>, Faith and Theology<\/a>, Mainstream Baptist<\/a>, NT Gateway<\/a>, Progression of Faith<\/a>, Quadrilateral Thoughts<\/a>, SF Gospel<\/a>, SF Signal<\/a>, The Bad Idea Blog<\/a>, The Panda\u2019s Thumb<\/a>, TheoFantastique<\/a>, The Busybody<\/a>, IO9<\/a>, The Creation of an Evolutionist<\/a>, Jim West<\/a>, Notes From Off Center<\/a>, Open Parachute<\/a>, N. T. Wrong<\/a>, Playing Chess With Pigeons<\/a>, Quintessence of Dust<\/a>, Threads from Henry\u2019s Web<\/a>, and countless<\/a> others<\/a> that I have neglected to mention because either (1) they\u2019ve already been nominated by someone else, or (2) they are sure<\/em> to be nominated by someone else, or (3) they haven\u2019t posted in a while, or (4) they didn\u2019t blog about the LOST season finale, or (5) I forgot. So all you other bloggers out there, get to work nominating these other great blogs!<\/p>\n