2017 Year End Analytics

I hit a brick wall in September. I hardly posted this fall after 13 years of steady blogging. The desire to transmit is a desire to share with fellow truth-seekers and perchance to convince. But to me this has been a discouraging year for truth and hope in the world, the church, and elsewhere.

I may still self-publish my funniest and most annoying thoughts from 2017.

Nevertheless:

1. Unsurprisingly, my most trafficked posts were the same old ones:

• Socrates' to know the good quote (2012)
• Wesleyans and baptism (2011)
• socially-constructed identity (2010)
• sermon in shoes song (2012)
• beware of thayer's (2014)
• why William Jennings Bryan was opposed to evolution (2008)
• famous empiricists (2008)
• free wesleyan commentary online (2013)

2. Most popular from this year:

• my posts on The Shack
• the misuse of Romans 13 to say governments can't be involved in doing good
• the riddles of Hebrews
• 95 theses for the church today (anniversary of Wittenberg door)
• is evangelicalism dead?
• recipe for a Wesleyan minister
• Hebrews and new perspectives

3. Most popular tweets of the year:

• With 4759 impressions, a chart I tweeted on the dates when Confederate monuments were erected won the year.
• In the first part of the year, a tweet suggesting that democracy requires an educated electorate received 2726 impressions.

4. Most popular YouTube videos:

• Sounds of ancient Greek letters (11,186 views)
• Connecting words in Hebrew (10,578 views, 71,851 minutes of watching)
• Exegetical research (2,059)
• Greek Participles (2286)
• Greek Verb (4282)
• Overall of Greek (1874)
• Philosophy of history (2306)
• Several Hebrew videos in the 2000s