Can be found here and I assume that N.T. Wrong? has returned. Oh the joy. Anyway, while it may be a shock to some of you, I am ‘very conservative.’ I would like to know what that means, however….
| Rank | Prev. | + / - | Blogger | Blog Name | Theological Leaning | Alexa Ranking |
| 1 | 1 | - | Jim West | Jim West | Orthodox | 59,934 |
| 2 | 2 | - | Joel L. Watts | Church of Jesus Christ, The | Very conservative | 69,168 |
| 3 | 8 | 5 | John Loftus | Debunking Christianity | Liberal | 147,114 |
| 4 | 5 | 1 | Dave Black | Dave Black Online | Very conservative | 209,763 |
| 5 | 7 | 2 | James McGrath | Exploring Our Matrix | Liberal | 220,129 |
| 6 | 15 | 9 | Jeff Oien | Scripture Zealot | Very conservative | 255,001 |
| 7 | 9 | 2 | Henry Neufeld | Participatory Bible Study Blog | Very conservative | 274,395 |
| 8 | 4 | -4 | Jeremy Thompson | Free Old Testament Audio Website Blog | Orthodox | 276,615 |
| 9 | 3 | -6 | Matt Dabbs | Kingdom Living | Very conservative | 333,271 |
| 10 | 12 | 2 | Ferrell Jenkins | Ferrell’s Travel Blog | Very conservative | 381,039 |
January 5th, 2010 11:36 am
I was labeled as only “conservative”, which is fine with me, though the baggage that often attends such labels can be misleading.
January 5th, 2010 11:39 am
I tend to agree, but I think that it was a ploy.
January 5th, 2010 12:39 pm
After having received the epithet “liberal charismatic” from an opponent several years ago and embraced it, I am indeed surprised to discover that I am very conservative.
January 5th, 2010 12:39 pm
[...] (HT: The Church of Jesus Christ) [...]
January 5th, 2010 12:58 pm
…and me a liberal?
Well, I was once, but it was just a passing phase.
January 5th, 2010 2:45 pm
aren’t you supposed to be an (atheist) evangelical?
I think you should (but who the hell am I) demand to be ‘independents’ and be independent too! 
January 5th, 2010 2:46 pm
I meant ‘all of you’… but that of course is just my TOTALLY irrelevant opinion…
January 5th, 2010 1:02 pm
You know what? I think your blog title itself draws you the most hits. Every Christian thinks they belong to your church, and anyone doing a search for the words that happen to be in your blog URL will garner a hit. What we need to find out is if these hits translate into actual readers.
Take PZ Meyers for instance. You can tell he gets a great number of hits based on the number of comments.
January 5th, 2010 1:12 pm
John, your former assumption would be incorrect. I get hits from the name, sure, but only form those of my former congregation who believes that I post things about them from time to time. Not totally untrue.
Rarely do I get hits from Mormons. And no, not every Christian believes that he or she belongs to this church.
Further, I have well over 17,000 comments which does add considerably to the Alexa ranking, as I discussed earlier. Hits rarely matter to Alexa, I believe as on days in which I had say, 800, with lots of comments, I can have good rankings but even on days with 2000, with a few comments, nothing much.
It is about a continuous movement on your blog.
January 5th, 2010 2:42 pm
I’ve always thought it a boring ‘game’ and better blogs ignore it. Isn’t it just a tad waste of time? Who really cares in the big world of potential audience? I don’t know how you can bear the pressure! I’m sure glad that an injury forced me out of competition athletics and I took up swimming just as obsessively but without the competition. What a blessing a broken leg was.
And that new blog is NOTHING to do with the real NT Wrong who is far more intellectually sophisticated and broadly knowledgeable than all of ya put together!!
Now he really does know how to be funny, cleverly and such a tinsy bit rudely so, but inoffensively. I suppose his wide ranging topics also appeal to me.
Bla to putting people in boxes… Just another ‘game’ I suppose!
January 5th, 2010 5:47 pm
Precisely: it’s certain types of news coverage, that increase suicidal behaviour in vulnerable people – copy cat they’re called. And “repeated and continual coverage of suicide tends to induce and promote suicidal preoccupations, particularly among adolescents and young adults”. It’s tragic, and widely recognised to be true.
January 5th, 2010 6:15 pm
Sorry, Steph, it should have been posted here:
http://thechurchofjesuschrist.us/2010/01/i-realize-and-i-can-see-suicide-is-painless/
January 5th, 2010 5:50 pm
BTW, voting for the 2010 Weblog Awards has started. Nominations close Tuesday, January 12, 2010. http://2010.bloggies.com/
January 5th, 2010 6:14 pm
I rather hope that I have at least one nomination
January 5th, 2010 6:35 pm
OK
January 5th, 2010 8:14 pm
Hey Joel,
I’m actually rooting for you to stay ahead of Loftus. That’s kinda odd for an atheist, isn’t it?
January 5th, 2010 11:11 pm
Thanks, Bill. I hope to always present a reasonable place for discussion, whether we agree or not.
January 6th, 2010 10:00 am
From the stats it looks like there’s no catching Joel so no worries. My only hope is to convince him he’s boring and drop out of the race like someone else recently did. Or, I could encourage Joel to study in South Africa where he’ll be too busy to Blog. Hmmm. Joel, go there to study!
I’m really not as bad as people think.
Just don’t “literally” piss me off!
January 6th, 2010 1:27 pm
you should all drop out – it’s the game that’s boring, always was and always will be – it just got worse and worse with all the incessant blathering.
January 6th, 2010 2:53 pm
Boring? John, I am the most entertaining man I know.
And who needs to study? My wife regularly tells me I am a know it all