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 | ||||||
1 | Between Two Worlds | Justin Taylor |
41670
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95287
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6
|
4254
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176112
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2 | GetReligion | Various |
206553
|
49788
|
7
|
2294
|
472214
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3 | The Resurgence | Various |
118067
|
79455
|
5
|
4602
|
313338
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4 | Michael Hyatt | Michael Hyatt |
33048
|
41480
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5
|
1888
|
184228
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5 | DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed | Kevin DeYoung |
41670
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95287
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5
|
1837
|
82634
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6 | Jesus Creed | Scot Mcknight |
21454
|
154562
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6
|
928
|
67490
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7 | Don Miller | Don Miller |
128980
|
12232
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5
|
10755
|
93282
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8 | Internet Monk | Various |
371386
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13075
|
6
|
2114
|
256242
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9 | Pyromaniacs | Various |
230138
|
9379
|
5
|
3287
|
175631
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10 | Dr. Albert Mohler | Albert Mohler |
118908
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42069
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4
|
2342
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362420
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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 | 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].
And in fact a lot of reformed bloggers dominate the BlogRank list as well as Kent Schafers Top 200 . . . so . . I have to reluctantly agree with Ed Stetzer and admit that the Reformed bloggers, actually, win in the blog game and emerging church bloggers, in fact, lose!At least they do for now . . . but just you wait . . . heh heh!!
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