Retired Pastor Ruminates: My Most Popular Blogposts of 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

My Most Popular Blogposts of 2009

As 2009 wanes I took advantage of Google Analytics to find the ten most popular posts of the year. I learned that Retired Pastor Ruminates, which was launched on March 23, has 10,467 page-views, of which 6,928 were unique page-views, and the average time spent on the page was 3:19. They came from 53 countries, with the US being first, and all but two of its states represented. The other countries with the most visitors are in order of visits: the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Germany, Netherlands, India, South Africa, Ireland and Singapore.

Here are the most visited posts:

My top 10 most visited blogposts in 2009

“In Defense of Blogging” (November 3)
“Funny Church Video: Church History in Four Minutes” (October 3)
“Where I Ruminate on the Death of Michael Jackson and the Culture of Celebrity”(June 27)
“The Future of Newspapers: An Interview with Martin Langeveld” (June 14)
“Another Lifeline: Leslie Newbigin” (October 28)
“Tools of a Learned Ministry” (June 8)
“Help, My Facebook Page, like Billy Pilgrim has become ‘unstuck on time’” (September 7)
“Some Fun for the Pastors’Family after Easter” (April 14)
“Prepare Three Envelopes: A Parable about Pastoral Ministry” (July 1)

Thank you for visiting Retired Pastor Ruminates, and come again in the New Year. Happy New Year!

2 comments:

Scott KirklandDecember 31, 2009 at 10:04 PM
I have been thoroughly enjoying coming over here to read Richard, thanks!
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Richard L. FloydDecember 31, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Scott,

The feeling is mutual. Keep blogging in 2010.

Best,

Rick
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Published articles and reviews

Floyd, Richard L. “A Brief Historical Sketch: The Religious Life of the Berkshires During the Time of the Mercersburg Movement.” The Mercersburg Review. Fall, 1997.

_______. “‘And to the Son:’ The Gloria Patri and Inclusive Language.” Prism. Volume 7, Number 2, Fall, 1992.

––––––––. “A Course in Basic Christianity: Remedial Catechesis for Adults.” Horizons. Volume 1, Number 1, Spring, 1995.

––––––––. “Marriage in the United Church of Christ.” in Christian Understandings of Marriage: Ecumenical and Pastoral Directives, Roman Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox. Revised Edition. Massachusetts Commission on Christian Unity, Boston: Divinitas Press, 1990.

_______. “The Cross and the Church: The Soteriology and Ecclesiology of P. T. Forsyth.” Andover Newton Review, Volume 3, Number 1,1992.

________. “An Interpretation of the Craigville Colloquy.” New Conversations. Volume 8, Number 1. Spring, 1985.

_______. “Review Essay of ‘Justice the True and Only Mercy: Essays on the Life and Theology of Peter Taylor Forsyth.’” Edited by Trevor Hart. The St. Mary's Bulletin: The University of St. Andrews. Spring, 1996.

_______. “Review of ‘Justice the True and Only Mercy: Essays on the Life and Theology of Peter Taylor Forsyth.’” Edited by Trevor Hart. Pro Ecclesia, Volume VII, Spring, 1998, Number 2.

_______. “The Pastor as Theologian in a Fundamentalist Environment.” Andover Newton Quarterly. Volume 19, Number 4, Spring 1979.

-----------. “The Towers We Build or God our Strong Tower?” No Other Foundation. Volume 14, Number 2, Winter 1993-1994.

_______. “Unity in the United Church of Christ.” Address to the Executive Council of the United Church of Christ, October 17, 1993. Papers from the Initial Meetings of Confessing Christ, November-December 1993.

_______. “Something Old, Something New.” The Journal of the United Church Musicians Association. Vol. 1, No. 1, 1998.

_______. “The Work of Christ in the Thought of P. T. Forsyth: Kenosis and Plerosis Revisited” in P. T. Forsyth: Theologian for a New Millennium, Alan P. F. Sell, Editor, The United Reformed Church, 1999.

_______. “The Worshiping Self” in Persons in Community: Theological Voices from the Pastorate. Edited by William H. Lazareth. Eerdmans, 2004.

_______. “Churches with Adjectives.” Colleague, Vol. XXI, No. 3, May, 2000.

________. “Spills.” Colleague, Vol. XXII, No. 4, October, 2000.

________. “The Tools of a Learned Ministry.” Colleague, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, October, 2001.

_______. “Review of God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament” by Richard Bauckham. Theology Today. Vol. 58, No. 1, April 2001.

________.“God is our refuge and Strength” in “He Comes, the Broken Heart to Bind:” Reflections on September 11, 2001. Edited by Frederick R. Trost, Confessing Christ. 2001.

––––––––. “The Cross as an Eschatological Act of God” in Hope for your Future: Theological Voices from the Pastorate. Edited by William H. Lazareth. Eerdmans, 2002.

––––––––. “They’ll know him in his Cross” in Story Lines. Edited by Skye Fackre Gibson. Eerdmans, 2002.

--------------. Review of “Who do you say that I am?: The Christology of the United Church of Christ” by Scott Paeth. United Church Press, 2006, Joy in the Word, Winter 2008.