(This page was most recently updated on 10 April 2016)

Academic and journalistic observers of religion:

• Religion & Politics, “Fit for Polite Company.”  Leans heavily towards progressive Christianity
• Religion Dispatches, which declares itself to represent “expert opinion, in-depth reporting, and provocative updates from the intersection of religion, politics and culture”;
• The Revealer, “a daily review of religion & media” from New York University’s journalism department

Christian ethics:

• Christianity Today, trying to figure out what comes after “Mainline Protestantism”;

• Inward/Outward, each day a brief, provocative statement of Christian ethics, drawn from writers past and present;
• Godthings, similar in concept to Inward/ Outward, but tends to provide longer quotes and more substantive theology;
• David Hayward, the Naked Pastor, was ordained as a Presbyterian minister but now spends more time drawing cartoons than filling pulpits
• Sojourners, progressive Christianity explained by progressive Christians who very much want you to know that they are progressive

Anglicans:

• The Anglican Communion Institute, a group of conservative-leaning churchmen, mostly Episcopalians and ex-Episcopalians;
• Covenant, a weblog of The Living Church;
• Inch at a Time, by Episcopal priest Susan Lynn Russell;
• Interrupting the Silence, by Orthodox-minded Episcopal priest Michael K. Marsh;
• Just Genesis, by Alice Linsley, who resigned from the Episcopal priesthood when she decided that women’s orders were unbiblical (and who also writes “Biblical Anthropology“);
• Pete Enns, who coined the phrase “incarnational historicism” as a description of his view of Scripture;
• Anglican scholar Wesley Hill has a personal tumblr and contributes to a site called Spiritual Friendship.

Judaism:

• Jewlicious, venerable internet institution
• Jewschool, “progressive Jews and views”
• The Tablet, a web magazine that gives voice to a range of views on Jewishness
• Torah Musings, Orthodox intellectualism

Lutherans:

• The Internet Monk, now maintained by Lutheran Michael Mercer;
• Lutheran Confessions, by “Evangelical Catholic” pastor Clint Schnekloth;
• Lutheran Satire, humorous videos;
• Nadia Bolz-Weber, the “Pastrix”;
• Charles Featherstone, a self-described “rambunctious holy mess” who is awaiting ordination as a Lutheran pastor;
• Reasonable Faith, overseen by non-Calvinist William Lane Craig;
• Faith and Theology, by Ben Myers, who expresses his motto here;
• Die Evangelischen Theologen, online home of The Karl Barth Blog Conference;

Mormons:

• Mormon Metaphysics, by a Latter Day Saint who makes his living as a professor of philosophy;
• Kristine Haglund at By Common Consent;
• Junior Ganymede, which is pretty jolly;
• Bruce Charlton’s Miscellany.

Muslims:

• “The Long Black Veil and Life Within It,”  by Kashmir’s greatest fan of P. G. Wodehouse, Sabbah Haji.  Not exactly about religion, but she will shatter every stereotype you’ve ever had of a hijab-clad Muslim woman;
• Love, InshAllah, “the Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women”

Orthodox Christianity:

• Christ, Coffee, and Comics, Greek Orthodox priest Niko Bekris explores the theological depths hidden in stories about Superman
• Notes on Arab Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity in the Arab world, both as practiced under the authority of the traditional patriarchates and of missionary churches there;
• Father Stephen Freeman, an ex-Anglican who serves Orthodox parishes in Eastern Tennessee;
• Joel J. Miller’s Two Cities;
• Red River Orthodox, an Orthodox, an Anglican, and an atheist walk into a bar maintain a blog;
• Rod Dreher writes as a Russian Orthodox at the American Conservative.

Quakers:

• Quakerquaker, an online community which Martin Kelley started after he began “The Quaker Ranter“;
• Johan Maurer, formerly a bigshot in the world of Quakerism,** now an English teacher in Elektrostal, Russia (he also has a page here);
• Micah Bales, focus on social justice issues;
• Friends who carry psychiatric diagnoses raise A Holy and Broken Hallelujah;
• Joshua Brown, a Quaker pastor recently relocated to North Carolina from Indiana;
• Doug Bennett, former president of Earlham University, who also has a site here.

Reformed Church adherents:

• Alastair’s Adversaria, from Alastair J. Roberts, who holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of Durham, and champions the Reformed tradition;
• Reasonable Faith, overseen by non-Calvinist William Lane Craig;
• Faith and Theology, by Ben Myers, who expresses his motto here;
• Die Evangelischen Theologen, online home of The Karl Barth Blog Conference;

Roman Catholics:

• Eve Tushnet, who is a pious Roman Catholic, a secular Jew, a conservative, a lesbian, a Yale grad, and a native of Washington, DC.;
• Whispers in the Loggia, from expert Vaticanologist Rocco Palmo;
• Dwight Longenecker, Evangelical Anglican turned ultramontane Roman priest;
• John Zuhlsdorf, aka “Fr Z,” who wants to keep the Antiquior Usus going;
• Gay Catholic Priests, by the Rev. Dr. Richard Wagner (I don’t believe he’s any relation to the composer);
• Simcha Fisher, a “cradle Hebrew Catholic“;
• The Catholic Thing, where most writing is brief;
• Unequally Yoked,which Leah Libresco started when she was still an atheist, explores Virtue Ethics and strives for fairness;
• Terry Mattingly edits and writes most of Get Religion;
• Working the Beads, by erstwhile Episcopal priest Jonathan Mitchican, who used to do The Conciliar Anglican and still is on God and Comics.

Secularists:

• The Friendly Atheist, who often features remarks like “perhaps you’re not fully god free until you are also free of the importance of getting others to be god free“;
• John Wilkins, historian of science and agnostic;
• Secular Right, proving you don’t have to be left-wing to be irreligious;
• Rebecca Watson, the “Skepchick“;
• Pandaemonium, by Kenan Malik;
• P Z Myers, who is just irascible enough to be funny

*I am fully aware of the irony of both halves of the word “bigshot” as applied to Quakerism