I feel quite honoured that within the last two days this blog, Gentle Wisdom, has been linked to by each of the top three blogs in the January list of bibliobloggers of the month.
#3 in that list is Jeremy Thompson, who has now taken over the biblioblogger listing from the mythical N.T. Wrong, who is apparently now not only resurrected but also ascended to heaven! Jeremy links to Gentle Wisdom as one of the several hundred biblioblogs he lists. On my first appearance in the old list last September my ranking was #58, but it slipped to #91 in October, #125 in November, and #199 in Jeremy’s trial listing on 10th January. That slippage is hardly surprising given how little I have been blogging in the last few months. But I am glad to see some recovery since Gentle Wisdom started to resume normal service, to #102 in the latest listings, for January.Will it climb still higher, perhaps into the rarefied heights of the Top 50? We will see – but I’m not going to make special efforts to get there.
By the way, the biblioblogger logo disappeared from my sidebar because the site I was linking to for it disappeared. I could restore it if someone gives me a new URL.
#2 in the January biblioblogger list is John Loftus’ site Debunking Christianity. I must say I wonder why this site qualifies as a biblioblog – it seems to be more atheist propaganda than study of the Bible. But John did honour me in a post yesterday with a link to my post on Haiti and a long quotation from it. I plan to respond to that in a separate post here.
January’s #1 biblioblogger is Joel Watts, with his somewhat presumptuously named blog The Church of Jesus Christ. Joel has inherited the top spot following the demise of Jim West’s old blog. Jim, like N.T., has been resurrected, as Zwinglius Redivivus, but this new blog hasn’t found any place in Jeremy’s biblioblog list – although with over 300 posts in the last three weeks of January Jim does seem to be making a determined bid to regain his #1 spot. Or will he too ascend to heaven before he gets there?
Anyway, Joel has also linked to and quoted from my post on Haiti, which he calls “A truly wonderful post”. Thanks, Joel!
My Haiti post may have attracted only 42 readers so far (according to WordPress statistics, but this excludes those who read it from my blog front page or from RSS feeds), but I can’t complain when two of those readers are the top two bloggers in this field.
UPDATE: January’s #5 biblioblogger Glenn Peoples has also linked here in the last two days. That makes 4 of the top 5! I didn’t spot Glenn’s link at first because it is only in a comment on one of his own posts – I found it because John W. Loftus quotes the comment. Glenn, thanks to you as well for the link, and the positive comment.
A lot of little squirts not listed anywhere read your blog I’m sure (like me) even if it is though their readers. 😉
Wishing we could figure out a way for those numbers to count!
Thanks, Bitsy. I certainly appreciate you and everyone else who reads this blog, however they do it.
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Presumptuously? 🙂
Peter, if you will email me, I’ll forward you the actual icons.
Oh, and Jim is not ‘biblioblogging;’ he is ‘theoblogging.’
Well, Joel, if Jim is “theoblogging”, John is “atheoblogging”. But then is anyone really “biblioblogging”? Probably none of the sites I link to here, and that includes yours and mine. A biblioblog officially
but it’s not that content which gets sites towards the top of the list.
I can find the icon if I really want to, in my own archives. But I’m not sure I want to. I see you haven’t even got it on your blog at the moment.
Nah, I took most of them off.
Don’t shoot the messenger, Peter – those were Jim’s words, not mine.
Peter, I’ve always enjoyed reading your perspectives from the other side of the pond. I’m glad you’re back, and am looking forward to continuing reading and discussions.
Well, Peter. The whole lion’s den thing and your damnation regardless what you write has gotten very interesting so I may be linking here more often. I’ve added you to my RSS so I can see how it plays out. And, you’re right – Joel is presumptuous and much, much worse …
It’s a reprobate group. But as Mae West and every actress since has noted, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I hope you can stir some things up with those silly atheists.
Thanks, Gary and Jeremy.
David, is it the “silly atheists” or the bibliobloggers who are reprobate? While I’m not making special efforts to get into the top 50, the current spat is of course doing no harm to my ratings.
I’m glad you’re posting here and on BBB. Phooey on ratings. Just give us quality stuff.
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