There are several blogs I have bookmarked to check regularly. Monday Morning Insight almost always has great links and Todd Rhoades often offers helpful insight and commentary. Todd posted several links to Perry Noble's blog and prompted me to begin reading Perry regularly. Perry's latest (which MMI linked to) is another exceptional entry titled "Four Arguments You Just Can't Win." The money quote:
                Make no mistake…a confident leader will ALWAYS be perceived by those who do not like the direction 
                the leader is taking the church as “prideful.”  Telling someone they are full of pride is the “silver bullet” 
                if you will of a critic because…you CANNOT refute them–you just can’t!!!

Tod Bolsinger over at It Takes a Church prompted me to add another book to my "must read" list with his series of entries on The Starfish and the Spider. You can read an installment in the series here.

The news has been interesting lately - especially the under-reported story of the "tolerance thugs". I was intrigued first when I scanned Bill Muehlenberg's comment: 
                It always amazes me how those activist groups who most go on and on about tolerance and acceptance 
                and peace and love are often the most unloving and intolerant folks around. Their rhetoric often is 
                light-years away from their actions.

Joe Sobran offers an interesting commentary on the phenomena:
                The great vice of liberal thinking is its failure of imagination with respect to Christians. For all their 
                preaching of “sensitivity” and “multiculturalism,” they are belligerently ignorant of Christian culture 
                and Christians’ feelings. In fact they seem to think that there is something specially “artistic” about 
                offending Christians. Offending blacks, Jews, feminists, or homosexuals is “insensitive,” while 
                offending Christians is “irreverent” — a word that has come to suggest a rather cute sassiness.
Interesting - that was written in 1999!

Breakpoint (from Charles Colson) offers a good commentary here.