Church blog rankings have one purpose and one purpose only: To allow the reformed bloggers to ridicule the emerging church bloggers. If there was another purpose, it would be for all of us church bloggers to stroke our tender blog-egos.
Kent Shafer just released his Top 200 church blogs and it seems the Reformed bloggers are kicking butt. Again. Ouch!
[you probably didnt know it was a contest . . ay?]
TOP 200 CHURCH BLOGS
as of March 26, 2011
| Name | Author |
 |
 |
 |
|
 |
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| 1 | Between Two Worlds | Justin Taylor |
41670
|
95287
|
6
|
4254
|
176112
|
| 2 | GetReligion | Various |
206553
|
49788
|
7
|
2294
|
472214
|
| 3 | The Resurgence | Various |
118067
|
79455
|
5
|
4602
|
313338
|
| 4 | Michael Hyatt | Michael Hyatt |
33048
|
41480
|
5
|
1888
|
184228
|
| 5 | DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed | Kevin DeYoung |
41670
|
95287
|
5
|
1837
|
82634
|
| 6 | Jesus Creed | Scot Mcknight |
21454
|
154562
|
6
|
928
|
67490
|
| 7 | Don Miller | Don Miller |
128980
|
12232
|
5
|
10755
|
93282
|
| 8 | Internet Monk | Various |
371386
|
13075
|
6
|
2114
|
256242
|
| 9 | Pyromaniacs | Various |
230138
|
9379
|
5
|
3287
|
175631
|
| 10 | Dr. Albert Mohler | Albert Mohler |
118908
|
42069
|
4
|
2342
|
362420
|
OK - I am looking at 5 blogs that would probably be "Reformed", 4 blogs that would probably come under the "Emerging" label, and one blog (Get Religion) that would be neither. 5-4. A fair win.
Perhaps Ed Stetzer is correct: "Reformed nerds rule. Emerging church is dead".
But wait! Lets look at another list.
Wikio has released the Top 20 religion blogs and you will find a completely different list of blogs. I copied this from Maggie's blog.
Top Blogs - Religion and Belief - April 2011
In this list, the Reformed dont win at all. HA HA!! Does it make a difference that the Wikio list is composed in UK? Yep I guess so. A little reality:
1. Language matters. All these blogs are English only so its not fair to call any of them "world's top blogs" without ranking foreign-language sites.
2. Geography matters. Even Kent admits that.
3. Criteria matters. Kent uses 5 criteria to measure his Top 200 but there are many ways to measure a blog. Blog Rank, for example, uses 20 different criteria and the results are very different.
Christianity Blogs: The ultimate rank
| # | Blog Title |  |
 |
 |
 |
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RSS | Site Score | Badge |
| 1st | Challies Dot Com | 16,010 | 83,758 | 77,742 | 380,327 | 5 | |
100 |  |
| 2nd | Christian Personal Finance | 8,614 | 7,774 | 28,051 | 50,636 | 5 | |
99.65 | |
| 3rd | Desiring God Blog | 28,258 | n/a | n/a | 139,671 | 3 | |
99.34 | |
| 4th | Ragamuffin Soul | 6,829 | 169,061 | 198,138 | 104,784 | 5 | |
99.33 | |
| 5th | 22 Words | 5,331 | 20,004 | 38,332 | 68,112 | 5 | |
98.7 | |
| 6th | ChurchCrunch | 4,390 | 120,018 | 74,351 | 31,758 | 4 | |
98.53 | |
| 7th | Bible Gateways Verse of the Day | n/a | 444 | 1,344 | 2,764,431 | 7 | |
98.52 | |
| 8th | Tall Skinny Kiwi | 2,842 | n/a | n/a | 83,240 | 5 | |
98.35 | |
| 9th | Church Relevance | 5,151 | 149,605 | 359,709 | 5,546 | 5 | |
98.3 | |
| 10th | Between Two Worlds | 37,385 | n/a | 2,295,000 | 135,292 | 6 | |
97.99 | |
| 11th | tonymorganlive.com | 7,086 | 299,510 | 480,589 | 66,098 | 4 | |
97.95 | |
| 12th | WithoutWax.tv by Pete Wilson | 2,266 | n/a | 309,525 | 108,871 | 4 | |
97.85 | |
| 13th | Compassion International - Christian Blog on Child Poverty | 3,285 | 14,057 | 72,600 | 41,028 | 5 | |
97.62 | |
| 14th | Human3rror | 2,180 | 370,913 | 141,873 | 41,500 | 4 | |
97.61 | |
| 15th | Perry Noble dot com | 10,618 | 223,936 | 439,366 | 85,798 | 4 | |
97.52 | |
| 16th | Logos Bible Software Blog | 36,790 | n/a | n/a | 43,605 | 6 | |
97.17 | |
| 17th | GetReligion | n/a | 38,152 | 205,524 | 434,509 | 7 | |
97.02 | |
| 18th | TheResurgence | n/a | 24,524 | 100,569 | 309,464 | 5 | |
97 | |
| 19th | Albert Mohlers Blog | n/a | 44,634 | 112,904 | 364,716 | 4 | |
96.96 | |
| 20th | internetmonk.com | n/a | 124,851 | 404,776 | 230,241 | 6 | |
96.95 | |
In this scenario, I beat out Justin Taylor (who was number one on Top 200) but Tim Challies rules the roost. [once again].
At least they do for now . . . but just you wait . . . heh heh!!
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