Minnesota has long had one of the most fertile, bumptious, interesting, active blog scenes in the world.\u00a0 Most of it is centered on the center-right blog scene; blogging is a medium that favors the underdogs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Northern Alliance Radio Network founded the Minnesota Organization of Bloggers nearly six years ago, as a way of turning that new, fertile, enthusiastic bunch of writers into a social scene.\u00a0 The MOB, as we called it from day one, has always been rigorously non-partisan; we have strenuously welcomed bloggers of all political stripes, and even bloggers who could care less about politics.\u00a0 And we always will.\u00a0 The MOB (Karl Bremer’s delusions aside) has no editorial input into any <\/em>MOB blogs; our only agenda is to publicize MOB blogs, blogging in Minnesota and, twice a year or so, get together for a party.<\/p>\n That’s it.<\/p>\n It’s something I used to do pretty much yearly – but I’ve fallen gravely short in my duties as one of the MOB’s Capo Di Tutti Bloggi<\/em>, and so it’s been nearly five years since I last took a trip Around The MOB to introduce you to the 100-odd blogs on the MOBRoll.\u00a0<\/p>\n So let’s fix that.\u00a0 Over the next few weeks, I’m going to take a quick visit (not super <\/em>long) with every currently-active blog on the MOB Blogroll.\u00a0<\/p>\n ———-<\/p>\n Which brings us to the top of the order, and the MOBRoll, and the only one so far to depart the Latin alphabet: \u03ad\u03c7\u03c9 \u03b6\u03c9\u03b7<\/a> (“Echo Zo\u00eb”).\u00a0<\/p>\n Where most MOB blogs focus on politics, \u03ad\u03c7\u03c9 \u03b6\u03c9\u03b7 has always been about faith.\u00a0 Christianity, as it happens.\u00a0 The blog has largely converted into a vehicle for a monthly podcast – which are, by the way, well worth listening to (as with this piece<\/a>, on the nature of persecution).<\/p>\n But the writing is also wonderful – philosophical, tackling the nature of God and eternity with the aplomb many of us reserve for fisking Nick Coleman.\u00a0 I loved this piece <\/a>– on the “hateful” label so promiscuously appled to Christians – from last October:<\/p>\n