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July 19th, 2007

Top of the blogs

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All bloggers like a little bit of recognition. We all did our best to appear terribly humble when talking about the Christian Blog Awards, but secretly we all think that it would be nice to have a few more readers and a few more links and that sort of thing.

This week two ‘top of the blogs’ lists were published in the religion sphere. The 30 Most influential religion blogs by Libby Purves of the Times and the Top 100 Christian blogs by Joe Carter of the Evangelical Outpost. Obviously I have no interest in being included in such lists, but I did have a look – you know – just in case. It would be rude not to notice had one been included, which of course, one wasn’t.

Having established that I wasn’t on the list I became free to decide that these lists are a load of nonsense anyway. The Times one consists mainly of fairly dull ‘religion and politics mixed together’ blogs, whereas Joe’s (as he says himself) consists mainly of those from ‘the conservative wing of evangelicalism and Catholicism’ (and Richard).

Fortunately one of the teachings of the Bible is that ‘the last will be first and the first will be last’. This means that those who have received great acclaim for their blogging on this earth will have a really rubbish place on the blogger’s table at the heavenly banquet – behind a pillar and next to the person who sniffs every eight seconds. Meanwhile those whose names are included in the ’100 worst Christian bloggers’ list will receive the places of honour.

There may be a prize for the person who posts the most convincing ‘I really don’t care about top blog lists and awards anyway, so there‘ post in the comments.

By the way, the Christian Blog Awards people are now offering a £1000 prize for the best church website. There’s also an award for the best 16-25 year old blogger. I’m still going to suggest they move the emphasis away from self-nomination though.

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  1. Marcus says:

    You’re absolutely right. The idea of Christian bloggers seeking any kind of recognition is just silly. You would never catch me doing that.

    Because I blog from Dublin I am automatically disqualified from entering the awards as it is for UK bloggers only. (Apparently the Web is not World Wide after all.)

    Anyway, I’m glad I can’t enter. I wouldn’t want any kind of gimmick to direct people to my blog, preferring instead to ‘just pray that God would in some special way direct the browsers of those earnestly seeking to my URL….for his glory.’

    Therefore I will not mention the address of my blog (Views from a Coffeehouse – encounters with people, places, books, life and faith over a regular latte) knowing that those who feel led will feel led to click on my name at the end of this comment taking them directly to my blog.

    Now, what was that you were saying about a prize, Dave?

    July 19th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
  2. Anne says:

    Hmm. I have links to a lot of blogs I read. They’re at my own blog. Your blog, however, is the only one that boasts a link (and feed) right from my Google homepage. This doesn’t constitute an award, but if you combine it with a dollar (or your equivalent in local currency) you might be able to buy a cup of coffee…

    July 19th, 2007 at 8:41 pm
  3. Aaron says:

    You may not be on the list, but I can tell you from experience that you’re a highly popular blogger. My stats spike every time I post a comment on your blog.

    That’s not WHY I post, of course…MY motives are pure.

    July 19th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
  4. Ann says:

    Ditto to Anne’s comment – Dave, you are the only blog on the google feed to my Google homepage. If that is not a prize I don’t know prizes!

    July 20th, 2007 at 1:44 am
  5. MadPriest says:

    Chin up, Dave. Jesus, himself, was overlooked in the “Itinerant Preacher Of The Year” Oscars, three years running.

    July 20th, 2007 at 8:41 am
  6. Daniel says:

    I’m still a bit puzzled about some of the categories:

    Most Original Worship Blog: Does that mean most original style of worship (welcome to the Praise Him on the Ukelele Blog) or most original blogging (wow, no one has ever blogged like this before) or most worryingly, most original object of worship (welcome to the Blu-tack Appreciation Website…).

    Best Christian Review Site: Surely not, don’t judge others and you you won’t be judged brothers and sisters. Reviewing each other is surely a violation of this precept, and online too where the heathens can see us and read about our sub-optimal performances.

    Most Successful Evangelistic Blog: Actually I’ve no objection to this one as long as the winner is based on how many ‘converts’ their blog has. I just think it’s unfair that old media evangelism isn’t (as far as I know) recognised in the same way. What about those big posters that people put outside churches (instead of boring stuff like when you’re allowed in) that always have a really bad pun, normally about driving, on them. I want to know has anyone anywhere ever been even slightly helped in any way by these? Apologies for the slight rant there and the overuse of brackets (throughout).

    July 20th, 2007 at 10:12 am