Here's an email offer I got last week (sorry for the delay – I'm still not finished with the new theme) that I want to forward on to readers who are interested in both receiving & blogging some good books.   It's from Mike Morrell for those of you who know him…..

"We're Looking For A Few Good Bloggers!"

The Ooze, the Web's most prolific 'emerging church & friends' website, is looking for 50 participants in a unique partnership with quality publishers. You will be mailed books for blog review on an every-other-month to quarterly basis, free of charge.  These are books on culture, theology, church history, justice, faith & science, global issues, spirituality, novels – you name it.  The Ooze pre-screens each title brought up for our consideration to ensure you that it is a book of singular distinction.

Interested?  Well, if you're an off-the-beaten-path, thoughtful blogger (you don't have to identify yourself with 'emerging church' conversation per se, though it's certainly fine if you do) who enjoys blogging about the above-mentioned topics, and you have a Technorati authority of 50 or higher, you're an ideal candidate.  Just send your name, blog URL, authority ranking, and snail-mail address by March 25 to zoecarnate [at] theooze.com.  (Please do not leave this info in the Comments section of this post.)  Then I'll send you a more detailed email as to what this entails and we can go from there.  Feel free to post this invitation on your own blog as well.

Thanks for your interest!

Mike Morrell

PS: This partnership is primarily intended for bloggers in the US and Canada – alas.  But if you're elsewhere and you have a readership that will make Mike just pass out upon witnessing it, let him know and they will consider you… just ask TSK (Andrew Jones).

I'm happy to post this email for Mike.  I only regret my delay (although I'm sure it's not too late to get in on this offer) as he's always been ultra-gracious in mailing me provocative books that I could never afford to add to my library any other way.  Last month, for example, it was Becky Garrison's Rising from the Ashes and a beautiful hardback copy of N. T. Wright's Surprised by Hope.  Thank you, Mike.  May your bloggers emerge.