What is this?
Churches are not buildings. Churches are people. People write weblogs, and this is a place to read them.
Weblogs are a great invention. For many people, the chance to publicly blog about their life, their experiences, or whatever is on their mind is a compelling activity whose reward is it's own.
Likewise, many readers of weblogs have found that keeping up with the weblogs of friends and strangers alike is a rewarding activity.
It makes sense then, that if the church writes weblogs there should be a place to read them. Enter ChurchWeblogs.com.
The Problems
As cool as weblogs are, they are essentially islands in a vast sea of online content. How do you find the weblogs of people you'd be interested in reading? It's not uncommon to discover that people who are fairly close to you have been blogging for a long time. Why didn't you know?
Another problem is that you must 'pull' the content from the weblogs that you want to follow. Visiting each website can be very time consuming. Plus, who has the memory to remember all the weblogs they want to visit? It's easy to remember 5, 10, maybe even 15 weblogs to visit, but beyond that it becomes too tedious.
If a people of a church are going to write weblogs, how can we solve these problems for the weblogs of the church?
The Solutions
Several tools have been created to solve just these problems. Web log search engines can let you find weblogs of interest. Weblogs link to each other creating small webs of relationships.
Further, technologies such as RSS and Atom allow weblogs to "push" content out to you. Things called "aggregators" and "readers" collect the pushed conent and present them to readers in one place. By using a reader you can keep track of many weblogs without having to check each one.
Churchweblogs.com is a reader where you can read the weblogs of the brothers and sisters in your church.