5 questions about Christian blogging

I was contacted via email last week by a young journalist from a Patrick Henry College student news magazine, and asked these questions about Christian blogging. Here was my reply back to her, in raw unedited form. If any of it gets published, I’ll link to the edited sanitized version here.

Q: What makes a Christian blog different from a secular blog in the material that they cover? Why have a “Christian blog” and not a neutral blog that’s written by a Christian? What are you, as a Christian blogger, hoping to communicate to your audience?

A: Many Christian blogs are different from a secular blog in that the Christian bloggers write about Christian subjects, whether it is devotional thoughts, Christian perspectives on everyday life, theology, or spiritual reflections. Some bloggers choose to have a distinctly Christian blog in order to communicate with a Christian audience, or prefer to be up front with their Christian testimony. However, I think the greater opportunity is to write a quality blog about whatever subject matter one is passionate about, and allow the bloggers own voice and passion to come through. It is this personal voice that I find most valuable in blogging, since it is my hope that blogging will foster more dialogue and understanding among our human diversity. I prefer to be known as a blogger who happens to be Christian, than a Christian blogger.

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