I have been discovering some interesting blogs of late. With their mention on the Biblioblog Top 50 (Jim’s minions), you have probably already seen my first mention–if you didn’t already know of the blog before that.

Two Fuller Seminary master’s students are blogging over at Walking Towards Jerusalem. The blog was originally geared towards Luke-Acts as it was begun by Jeremiah, but his fiancée, Ashleigh joined up just recently–who is not quite as focused on the largest portion of the New Testament as Jeremiah. Looks like a great blog and it will be interesting to see them interact. I’m always happy to find Fuller connections. May they post often!

From the comments on their blog, I discovered Jason Staples, a Ph.D. student under Bart Ehrman at UNC-Chapel Hill. He doesn’t post all that often, but he has some real lengthy and meaty posts when he does.

Check ‘em out!

If I’m linking to women’s blogs, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention my own wife’s new blog, The Milk Mama, which is dedicated to breastfeeding, among other things. Only one week old, she’s already published some interesting thoughts and is generating some decent traffic. But she’d love to find lots more dialogue partners and I thought it couldn’t hurt to get the word out there with my own readers.

Not only is Christina an heroic breastfeeding mother (who prevailed through some very trying times with our son early on), but she is also a Registered Dietitian (specializing in pediatric nutrition), holds a Master of Public Health degree from UCLA (she graduated as one of the top students in her class), and is a Certified Lactation Educator en route to becoming a Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). That’s right, my wife is so awesome that she deserves four parenthetical statements in one sentence.

So if you, or someone you know, is interested in topics related to breastfeeding, being a working mom, natural approaches to parenting–particularly written by a well-qualified specialist and excellent writer–then Christina’s blog is worth a good gander.

N.B. — I considered titling this post, “Like Boobs?”, but my wife advised me otherwise.

You don’t say. Rachel Marszalek stopped by my blog today, looking at an older post I did on Junia, to which she linked on her own blog. Rachel describes herself as an Anglican Ordinand and uses the following labels for herself: “Christian, Anglican, Evangelical, conservative (small C), Charismatic (big C), Open, Post-modern.” Have a look, for instance, at her posts tagged with “Bible” (which doesn’t even include all of her posts on biblical studies) and it looks to me that we could call Rachel’s a “biblioblog,” if she so desired. Not only that, if we were to include her as a “biblioblog,” based on her Alexa ranking, I think she’d go straight to the Top 50. Fancy that.

Now, Rachel, you may be sitting there bewildered by this post. I don’t know if you follow biblioblogs at all, but we are an active community of people who blog about academic biblical studies (though some are more “academic” than others). We have a Top 50 ranking, a monthly carnival, and bibliobloggers of the month. Recently, we’ve been talking about how few women we have in our ranks and some of us are hoping to find some more female bloggers who might unwittingly deserve the label “bibliobloggers.”

All of that said, do check out Rachel’s blog. I’ve added her to my own feed reader and look forward to some interesting conversation. Incidentally, I’ve just noticed that Rachel is not unknown to bibliobloggers as links to her blog show up quite a few times in the biblioblog custom search, but her blog itself is not included in the “official” list.