Today I would like to officially announce a brand-spanking-new blog called the Subversive Blogger Awards.
American author Henry Miller (1891-1980) once said, "The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."
Subversive bloggers are unsatisfied with the status quo, whether in church, politics, economics or any other power-laden institution, and they are searching for (and blogging about) what is new (or a "return to") - even though it may be labeled as sacrilege, dangerous, or subversive.
To kick off the Subversive Blogger Awards, I am tagging the following five blogs/bloggers:
1. by Adam Walker Cleaveland
2. by Matt Cleaver
3. by Josh Brown
4. by Thomas Mathie
5. by Paul Soupiset
The rules of participation are pretty straightforward:
1. If you are tagged, write a post with links to five subversive blogs
2. Link back to this post on JakeBouma.com so people can easily find the origin of the meme
3. Optional: Proudly display the "Subversive Blogger Award" somewhere on your blog (images below) with a link to the post that you wrote
That's all there is to it. Keep in mind that this award is meant as an encouragement to bloggers to keep doing what they're already doing - being subversive (however you interpret it). May we never forget that Jesus (and His message) was the original and ultimate subversive.
Here are the images you can use for your blog, courtesy of and . All I ask is that you download them and upload them to your own server.
Blog on.
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So —- Josh doesn’t get a head start from the rest of us because he made the graphics does he?
Adam: Ha, nope. He gets credit for making the images, but he’ll do his own post like the rest of us.
Aren’t we all going to find out, that we all read each other’s blog. It will be like catching our own tail.
Brandon B: That’s possible, but really unlikely. A meme ends up looking more like a factor tree than a circle, so the more that participate, the less likely it is that you’ve read all the blogs.
Shouldn’t there be more people voting on this thing? Isn’t it kind of ironic that the “Subversive Blogger Award” is chosen by a lone dictator? lol
Matthew: In actuality, there WILL be a lot of people voting. The longer it exists, the more people it will be passed on to. It’s not meant as a definitive list of the “ultimate” subversive bloggers; like I said in the post, it’s meant as an encouragement. My view of the blogosphere is limited, and it’s been fun and enlightening seeing whom the award is passed on to.
If I go against being subversive, doesn’t that make me in fact a more subversive blogger?
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