I didn’t know about the history of blogging until I ran across this infographic. I’m grateful for the many creative expressions of blogging that have arisen from the original “diary” format. (By the way, if you’d like a bigger view of the infographic, just click on it.)

The following are links to some Top Niche Cru bloggers. It was hard to categorize these as they’re not limited by the category I filed them under. Check them out!

Top Niche Cru Bloggers

Campus Ministry

Tim Casteel

Culture and Social Issues

Crocker Chronicles (Scott Crocker)

Rasool Berry

Shelby Abbott

Family

April Knapp

Heather Holleman

Hope for Hurting Parents

Scraping Raisins (Leslie Verner)

Stacey Thacker

Tez Brooks

Tip of My Iceberg (Dayle Rogers)

Travel Lite (MK2MK)

Food

Pursuing Heart (Cherry Warrick)

International

Beck Bulletin (Doris Beck in Canada)

Mark de Boer (The Netherlands)

La Bible (Switzerland)

Leadership

Brian Virtue

Leading with Questions (Bob Tiede)

On Leading Well (Ken Cochrum)

Life

Eternal Wait of Glory (Alison Wilson)

Gina Butz

God’s Perennial Woman (Marilyn Ehle)

John Iamaio

Katherine James

Living with Eternal Intentionality™ (Debby Thompson)

Love Brightly (Keri Armentrout)

Maggie Bruehl

Meg Walker

Second Cup of Coffee

Singing His Grace (Jocelyn Hepler)

The Nearness of God (Judyth Neibling)

The Walk Home (Patreeya Prasertvit)

Photoblog

Wandering 40 Days (Mick Haupt)

Tech / Digital

eQuipping for eMinistry (Sus Schmitt)

Miheret (Miheret T. Eshete)

Theme

Abigail Alleman (Abigail Alleman)

God Fully Known (Sus Schmitt)

Kindling (Judy Douglass)

maturitas cafe (Terry Morgan)

The Sovereign (Sus Schmitt)

I know you’ll find some new bloggers to follow in this list.

How about you? Do you want to try blogging yourself to help bring Christ to a needy world?

NOTES:

• If you’re on Cru staff and feel you should be added to this list, please contact me at sus dot schmitt at cru dot org.
• Infographic by Flowtown from Visually.