ExploreTruth

These are 8 blogs that reveal a flair for the creative and unconventional ways of living your life.  Each, in varying respects, have helped me in my search for greater meaning in life and even in my spiritual development.  Some have inspired a more intentional approach to life, while others have also gone deeper, by sharing and inspiring a spirit to explore unconventional ways of looking at life, work, and the spiritual journey.  

The 8(In no specific order):

Cody McKibben – Thrilling Heroics

Tag line: Adventures in Lifestyle Design, Entrepreneurship & Location Independence

What makes this website interesting: I’ve had the opportunity to begin to get to know this guy, through his very popular blog, and the magical world of twitter.  Cody seems to be someone who is a living testimony to living intentionally.  Originally from California, he decided to move to Thailand, and design his life in such away that affords him the ability to operate his online business from wherever he is.

Twitter: @codymckibb

Donald Miller – The Blog of Donald Miller

Tag line: Best-Selling Author of Books, and Stuff

What makes this website interesting: Don is a writer, so he’s probably not best known for his blog.  He’s written a few books, his most noted being Blue Like Jazz, which became a New York Times Bestseller.  His latest book, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, a book about his journey editing his life, is poised to do the same thing.  Visit his site for a taste of his various “non-religious thoughts, on Christian spirituality”.  You’ll be sure to laugh a few times while your there.  Don’s a funny guy, but always thought-provoking.

Twitter: @donmilleris

Chris Guillebeau – The Art of Non Conformity

Tag line: Unconventional Strategies for Life, Work, and Travel

What makes this website interesting: Chris is a writer, traveler, and entrepreneur with the goal of visiting every country in the world while connecting with other world-changers.  Along the way he has been sharing his journey with the world, and helping people live unconventional lives, while changing the world.  This mix of social entrepreneur, world traveler, and humanitarian is very appealing to a lot of folks, including myself.  Check out his site, he has quite a few download available e-books, that will give you a peak into his philosophy on life.

Twitter: @chrisguillebeau

Leo Babauta – Zen Habits

Tag line: Simple Productivity

What makes this website interesting: Leo Babauta a living example of someone who has stripped down all irrelevant aspects of a once chaotic life, and gives you the fundamentals on what it takes to live a simple life.  Even his blogs design reflects his commitment to a minimalist lifestyle.  And when you read his stuff(books, and blogs), his message of simplifying your life by clearing the clutter, increasing productivity and finding happiness as a result, comes shining through.

Twitter: @LeoBabauta

Joan Ball – Flirting With Faith

Tag Line: Flirting with, and finding faith.

What makes this website interesting: She is currently slated to release her upcoming book: Flirting with Faith: My Journey from Atheism to Agnosticism to a Devoted Life, and I look forward to it.  For now, you can find her writing at the ever-growing community of spiritual sojourners: Beliefnet.   What I value from Joan, is her intentional positioning, or “flirting with faith” as she calls it.  Her example inspires the spirit of persistent inquiry in your own life and spiritual journey.

Twitter: @joanpball

Peter Rollins – PeterRollins.net

Tag Line: none

What makes this website interesting: Peter Rollins is writer, lecturer, storyteller and public speaker. He has a very provocative, and philosophically structured, out of the box way at approaching theology, and faith.  I’ve valued how he challenges many traditionally held Christian paradigms, allowing the Christian to evaluate if they have been transformed and are living a revolution, or a status quo, watered down set of rituals.  However, highbrow one may think his style is, he also manages to use storytelling, parables, theology, and poetry in order to explore the life of faith in accessible ways.  He is also the founder of ikon, “a faith group that has gained an international reputation for blending live music, visual imagery, soundscapes, theatre, ritual and reflection to create what they call ‘transformance art’.”  This unconventional approach to faith and even church, provokes new ideas, and ways of imagining religious life, and Christian spirituality.  Judge for yourself.

Twitter: @peterrollins

Lisa Colon Delay – Life As Prayer: the lifestyle (being, beyond the book)

Tag Line: Prayer: Not an activity, but what we may become

Do you pray?  Like as in clasp your hands and mutter something you hope goes past the ceiling? Or is your entire existence lived in such a way, that your life permeates the atmosphere, and all around you, like the sweet scent of  burning  incense.  Your thoughts, words, and actions, evoking a constant stream of letters to and from the heart of God.  This concept of “living as prayer”, was one I hadn’t thought of much, until I bumped into Lisa’s blog.  In fact the entire subject of prayer, is one that I’ve had mixed feelings on for sometime.  As a result of reading her work, I can say, I have grown, and have been challenged to reconsider some ideas on the subject of prayer.

Twitter: @lisacolondelay

Relevant Magazine

Tag Line: Covering God, Life, and Culture

Now Relevant Magazine isn’t a blog.  Then again, what is the strict definition of a blog.  The website is more a magazine, online community, blog network, and much more.  I discovered them a few years ago, and they represent a progressive Christian voice, so desperately needed in a conversation, that at times, seems to be monopolized by a much more conservative, fundamentalist, and a politically motivated majority.  Relevant magazine gives voice and speaks to a 20 something generation of people who are genuinely interested in God, above tradition, religion, or any of those other shenanigans.

Twitter: @RELEVANTMag