UPDATE: Bob Carlson wants us all to submit our Top 5 blog posts to him. [Remember last year??] A $5 donation for submitting 5 posts will go to a New Orleans charity – check out Give5Now. Here are my Top 5 for 2006. They may not be the highest rating but i enjoyed writing and reading them.
1. Losing my Religion in London Part 1 [Part Two, Three, and Four]
2. The Drama of Domain Mapping My Blog
3. Sometimes I Dress Like a Pagan
4. The Emerging Church is NOT White Middle-Class Males
5. Carrying Your Dad’s Dumbbell
I also liked the post for my wife – brain(spirit)storm [top secret] but it was too techie for many readers {clue: you have to SELECT the text to read it . . like invisible ink – i don’t think many people got that one}
ORIGINAL: Bill Dahl of Purpoise Diving Life has published his list of “2006 best” and this has inspired me to ask a question that has been on my mind for a w hile:
What was the best single blog post in 2006 regarding the emerging church?
Not the best blog SITE – that is soooo early millenium. But the best blog POST – lets find it . . . it should be recognized because the new blogosphere is more about individual posts and how they perform [their google-ranking, long tail, reach, artistic quality, etc] than it is about how many permanent links or daily visitors or how cool your blog looks.
Another question – what was the BEST post you wrote in 2006? Your Favorite? Your highest Google Ranked? Your most commented on? I think my favorite blog post, out of all i wrote in 2006 is called “The Drama of Domain Mapping My Blog“.
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I’ve just been reflecting that despite writing some serious stuff on theology and Bible translation, the post which has got most attention on my blog is a YouTube video of me and some friends falling out of a white water raft in Thailand.
Profundity is all very well, but you can’t beat slapstic for impact!
All this talk of “dates”, “rankings” and “best” as if they really mean something… is so modern š
Funnily enough, my personal favourite post (Wires and Lights in a Box: Good Night and Good Blogging)
received precisely zero comments! May be it was just too brilliant for further comment. That or it was….
my favorites never get many comments either
and my trivial ones get attention. life is rough!
This was my best post of the year, in my opinion.
http://flyingshepherd.com/2006/11/19/praying-for-the-other/
I can’t remember any
Probably a lot like the old sermon!
They do some good at the time but rarely leave a lasting mark in the memory!
That said I think Mark Driscoll probably holds pole position when it comes to generating controversy…
while i had my 15 minutes of blogger fame when you featured my ‘myths about the ec’ on your blog and the masses came to visit, my favorite is still big hair theology.
My favourite post of yours Andrew was the Dress like a pagan one – humourous but with serious undertones.
My own favourite post is http://globalremedy.typepad.com/emerging_house_church_lud/2006/10/humbug.html
unseasonal (not now) and sadly missed by most of my hoards of readers!
ah yes . . i almost forgot . .
Sometimes I dress like a pagan
I still think my post What is the Emerging Church? is one of the clearer and more concise descriptions of the emerging church movement out there.
My blog (The Core Blog) is now one year old, and looking back, I had trouble picking ONE favorite. So, out of my several favorites, I’ll link you to the one with the best title:
Sorry… the above comment didn’t fully publish. My favorite post is entited TV, Churchaholism, Duct Tape and a Puppy.
My favorite blogpost of yours is “Carrying your dad’s dumbell” (http://tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com/tallskinnykiwi/2006/11/haggard_kids_th.html). Thanks so much for your vulnerability and transparency in sharing that testimony, and for urging the rest of us to share the burden of the Haggard family’s shame.
Although my recent Godmen post was the highest traffic piece, I think the post called “How Faith Reconfigures In Young Adulthood” was the pick of 2006 from my blog.
http://fernandogros.com/?p=649
Carrying Your Dad’s Dumbbell was incredibly powerful. It is easily #1
i think i’d rather hear what posts we have read from others that have changed our minds or stretched our thinking (not just validated it)…
Thanks for including me in your Top 5 list. Iām glad you enjoyed reading the article. The link love is also much appreciated