February 1 Christian Carnival Posted

… at All Things New. Thanks to Deb for hosting!

A Great Referrer

It turns out I’m #22 on the list of the top 40 referrers to Adrian Warnock, a site I listed under five sites I read because I disagree. Glad to help, Adrian!

Michael Spencer – Internet Monk – Farewell!

A leading light in Christian blogging, with a challenging and varied blog, has gone on to glory after a battle with cancer. Chaplain Mike provides the news at the Internet Monk.

Congratulations to Dispatches from the Culture Wars

My friend Ed Brayton of Dispatches from the Culture Wars, who encouraged me to get into blogging, has just attained a great new record–over 1,000,000 page views for the month of March.

Congratulations!

David Ker is Bored

Well, at least he’s finding the blogosphere boring. He finds that there are only two interesting Christian bloggers left, James McGrath and Eddie Arthur. What’s interesting is that, while I don’t seem to generally agree with David as to what is interesting, I agree with him that those two bloggers are very interesting. I [...]

Congratulations to James McGrath

He has been appointed to the newly revived Clarence Goodwin chair of New Testament Language and Literature at Butler University.

My only question is how a university allows a chair like that to remain unfilled for 60 years. Thanks is very much due to the person who discovered the omission.

Most Popular 10 Posts of 2009

Here are the ten most popular posts of 2009, as determined by my wp-stats plugin:

Does Gordon Fee Discard Part of the Bible? ESV vs KJV (Better Bibles Blog) Suppressed and Talking about it Everywhere Criticism Example: The Parable of the Sower Translating Psalm 46 Seventh-day Adventist Education and Evolution Can Anyone Identify this [...]

Strange Search of the Day

Someone, or perhaps more than one person, found this blog through the search “libertarian women in ephesus,” resulting in four page views.

I have no idea what post that search would lead to. The phrase “libertine women” leaps to mind, but I’m pretty sure I have never used that phrase on this blog.

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Blogging/Essay Contest

My company is sponsoring a Christianity related blogging/essay contest, with prizes to include gift cards from Barnes & Noble. Detail are on the Energion Publications blog.

FTC Disclosure Rules for Blogs

Over on my company blog I indicated that these rules were generally common sense, as in if you make money off of something you should disclose the fact that you do.

Of course, you can’t count on the government to use common sense even in implementing common sense. Thus somehow if print news organizations [...]