Top 100 Church Blogs

January 18, 2009

There are hundreds of great church blogs and ministry blogs to read, but do you ever wonder which church blogs everyone else is reading?

I do, which is why I have compiled a list of the world’s top church blogs.

Some focus exclusively on ministry, while others are more like theology blogs. Regardless of how you label them, these are the world’s most popular church blogs written by many of today’s most influential church leaders, theologians, and Christ followers.

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For a legend and to understand how the rankings are computed, scroll down past the list.

TOP 100 CHURCH BLOGS (as of September 4, 2009)

	Name							Score
1	Desiring God	39,656	109,612	6	7,001	615	2,378	2.5
2	Between Two Worlds	108,309	29,676	6	27,309	556	2,832	5
3	Tim Challies	129,527	44,909	5	5,490	371	1,789	7.83
4	Stuff Christians Like	189,033	33,711	5	7,145	548	1,425	8.83
5	The Resurgence	156,353	22,148	5	3,397	496	2,723	9.33
6	Internet Monk	152,427	21,265	6	1,671	452	2,008	11
7	GetReligion	150,694	34,623	7	1,387	212	917	13.67
8	Jesus Creed	3,256	488,265	5	629	259	1,286	14.5
9	Michael Hyatt	67,847	39,440	5	852	272	878	15.67
10	Pyromaniacs	268,846	13,111	5	2,056	242	1,299	16.17
11	Church Marketing Sucks	221,984	11,470	5	3,303	436	533	17
12	Out of Ur	14,475	63,914	4	1,512	201	996	19.5
13	Ragamuffin Soul	320,080	10,109	5	2,337	180	868	19.83
14	Swerve	73,604	7,782	5	1,343	150	801	23.17
15	Dr. Albert Mohler	170,557	31,917	5	4,603	285	166	23.83
16	Evotional	877,547	8,797	5	2,114	552	676	26.83
17	Church Relevance	313,613	11,252	5	2,052	64	418	30.33
18	Josh Harris	573,711	11,365	4	2,713	438	436	32
19	Perry Noble	644,649	9,947	5	622	191	854	32.17

	Name							Score
20	Blog and Mablog	563,804	9,596	4	2,194	327	573	32.33
21	FlowerDust.net	567,817	6,390	5	1,078	151	656	35.17
22	Monday Morning Insight	108,665	10,285	4	1,189	108	338	36.17
23	Ed Stetzer	44,971	19,424	5	1,680	0	814	36.5
24	Church Crunch	115,977	13,254	4	402	142	551	36.67
25	Tall Skinny Kiwi	638,372	3,696	5	1,190	277	522	37.33
26	Tony Morgan Live	416,760	6,427	4	995	180	838	37.5
27	Without Wax	530,978	3,515	5	1,127	154	682	37.67
28	Eugene Cho	472,142	7,198	5	658	113	528	37.67
29	Acts 29	496,394	9,961	5	98	305	786	39
30	Mark D. Roberts	674,932	9,474	5	449	57	13,091	39.17
31	Steven Furtick	506,495	8,378	4	1,226	134	561	40.67
32	Emergent Village	944,034	7,089	6	631	125	649	41.17
33	Adrian Warnock	533,915	3,675	5	1,063	165	372	41.17
34	Ligonier Ministries	130,402	58,801	4	1,264	0	1,567	43
35	Compassion International	94,110	7,928	5	401	45	266	43.33
36	Founders Ministries Blog	373,193	21,712	4	907	116	211	44
37	Human3rror	216,110	9,009	5	119	71	293	47.67
38	Vintage Faith	1,190,302	3,184	5	1,269	282	228	48.17
39	Think Christian	910,340	8,410	5	1,749	48	228	48.17

	Name							Score
40	22 Words	792,784	4,333	4	1,812	116	461	49.17
41	Leading Smart	1,305,303	2,806	5	1,373	173	336	49.17
42	nakedpastor	367,782	8,701	5	77	97	425	50.17
43	9Marks	353,585	5,566	5	29	300	551	51
44	Kingdom People	598,544	4,813	4	482	105	671	51.5
45	Catablog	330,571	10,322	4	633	97	114	51.5
46	Liturgy	307,170	12,263	5	80	120	179	51.67
47	THEOOZE	848,648	2,629	5	356	289	276	52
48	Brian McLaren	472,360	4,719	6	851	0	625	55.17
49	Ben Arment	1,094,457	1,689	4	943	206	492	57.17
50	Phil Cooke	505,542	5,945	4	563	91	176	57.83
51	Real Live Preacher	231,497	3,795	6	123	29	310	58.5
52	Reformissionary	1,237,405	3,182	4	1,109	227	232	58.83
53	Kem Meyer	1,287,604	1,279	5	964	154	248	59.5
54	XXXchurch	143,463	35,900	5	74	0	324	60.83
55	Collide Magazine	225,819	8,489	5	275	24	87	61
56	Don Miller	554,238	6,227	4	2,704	0	343	61.5
57	JollyBlogger	999,738	2,663	4	469	178	253	62.5
58	Open Source Theology	436,437	4,570	5	102	102	104	63.67
59	Digital @ Leadership Network	394,548	12,158	4	208	38	93	66

	Name							Score
60	High Calling Blogs	419,139	5,352	4	115	37	331	66.67
61	Worship Matters	1,267,103	2,845	4	1,072	53	275	66.83
62	Reformation 21	8,537,446	8,532	5	1,638	0	846	67.83
63	The Evangelical Outpost	1,069,923	3,912	3	2,593	66	411	67.83
64	Unashamed Workman	1,356,880	2,462	4	708	54	305	68.83
65	Johnny Baker	1,206,997	0	4	598	156	349	70
66	Mark Beeson	2,828,174	1,752	5	492	95	215	70.5
67	Pure Church	1,716,427	2,126	4	1,135	51	251	72
68	Pomomusings	278,653	4,207	3	167	74	303	73.33
69	Cal.vini.st	631,300	0	4	360	75	294	73.5
70	John C. Maxwell	505,991	2,232	4	314	58	95	74.17
71	Ed Young Jr.	1,282,509	3,080	4	865	61	96	74.5
72	Deadly Viper	591,579	3,399	4	378	38	96	74.83
73	Christian Web Trends	110,761	57,970	4	58	15	61	77
74	The Sola Panel	1,044,368	1,052	4	445	39	242	77.17
75	Off the Agenda	339,692	30,210	5	26	19	46	78
76	Joe Thorn	1,283,046	0	4	487	174	158	78.67
77	Dave Ferguson	1,718,510	490	4	553	145	172	78.83
78	Purgatorio	1,480,994	4,965	5	398	21	66	79.17
79	Take Your Vitamin Z	859,745	2,195	4	441	0	478	79.33

	Name							Score
80	Glocal Christianity	723,583	7,275	4	27	55	211	79.5
81	In Light of the Gospel	429,075	972	4	168	44	148	79.83
82	Drew Goodmanson	694,918	1,967	4	321	25	162	81
83	The Digital Sanctuary	1,437,957	1,724	4	571	39	136	81.17
84	Scott Hodge	3,549,650	0	4	691	135	256	82
85	Bill Kinnon	1,867,978	2,150	4	201	71	191	82.17
86	The Blazing Center	1,741,941	2,627	4	267	45	156	83.67
87	Godspace	1,894,000	0	4	199	78	424	84.17
88	Rhett Smith	1,057,366	3,154	5	59	28	130	84.5
89	Relevant Blogs	56,977	33,675	6	37	0	2	84.67
90	Shaun in the City	1,060,570	4,303	4	142	36	88	85.67
91	Church Communications Pro	269,648	5,425	5	40	3	51	87
92	Cerulean Sanctum	2,339,065	3,621	4	147	34	203	87.17
93	More Than Dodgeball	1,202,608	967	4	76	51	278	87.33
94	A Place For the God-Hungry	823,471	2,239	4	223	17	104	87.67
95	Fred McKinnon	1,592,476	788	3	122	121	1,084	88
96	Pastor Hacks	2,345,042	0	4	105	155	292	88.17
97	DJ Chuang	865,461	7273	4	36	28	123	89
98	Jordon Cooper	1,562,462	2,012	5	78	23	181	89.17
99	Notes from off Center	1,375,304	1,358	5	66	33	130	89.67
100	Gathering in Light	710,586	4,357	3	157	35	134	91.33

LEGEND

Alexa Rank
Alexa’s traffic rankings are based on the usage patterns of Alexa Toolbar users and data collected from other, diverse sources over a rolling 3 month period. A site’s ranking is based on a combined measure of reach and pageviews. Reach is determined by the number of unique Alexa users who visit a site on a given day. Pageviews are the total number of Alexa user URL requests for a site. However, multiple requests for the same URL on the same day by the same user are counted as a single pageview. The site with the highest combination of users and pageviews is ranked #1.
Compete Visitors
The number of unique visitors that visited the website in July 2009 according to Compete.
Google PageRank
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.”
Google Reader Subscribers
The number of Google Reader users that subscribe to each blog.
Technorati Authority
Authority is determined by the number of unique blogs indexed by Technorati that have linked to that blog in the past 180 days.
Technorati InLinks
The total number of links that a blog has received.

HOW THE LIST IS COMPUTED

181 well-known blogs are selected.
Data is collected for each blog from all 6 measured criteria (i.e., Alexa Rank, Compte Visitors, Google PageRank, Google Reader Subscribers, Technorati Authority, and Technorati InLinks).
For each of the 6 measured criteria, each blog is ranked in comparison to all other blogs being evaluated.
A composite rank for each blog is determined by averaging each blogs ranking from the 6 measured criteria.
The top 100 blogs are published.

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