{"id":39321,"date":"2016-12-31T06:18:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T11:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=39321"},"modified":"2016-12-31T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T12:59:12","slug":"top-10-posts-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/top-10-posts-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Posts of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Counting down the top ten posts in\u00a02016 (some of which were actually written in years past, but they continue to get traffic):<\/p>\n

Although to be honest, I now think this one is more effective:<\/p>\n<\/iframe>\n#4 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/whats-your-source.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s Your Source?<\/a><\/p>\n#3 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/07\/noahs-brother.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Noah\u2019s Brother<\/a><\/p>\n#2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/07\/jesus-vs-alllivesmatter.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus vs. All Lives Matter<\/a><\/p>\nAnd finally, the most popular post of the year was\u2026<\/p>\n#1 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/08\/the-immorality-of-pro-life.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Immorality of Pro-Life<\/a><\/p>\nI also feel like I should mention post #11 as \u201crunner up,\u201d since it is a post from January 2016, and so makes for a nice book-end to this post. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/01\/the-atheist-game-of-telephone.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe Atheist Game of Telephone.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nWhich posts were your favorites, and why? And what are you looking forward to me blogging about in 2017?<\/p>\nI hope your new year gets off to a fantastic start!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Counting down the top ten posts in\u00a02016 (some of which were actually written in years past, but they continue to get traffic): #10 The Novelty of the Personal Relationship with Jesus #9 Silent Night (Quaker Arrangement) #8 The Original Aramaic Lord\u2019s Prayer is None of the Above #7 \u00a0Not Liberal Just Literate #6 \u00a0Ayn Rand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":39329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,70],"tags":[960,1249,1254,1259,8787,9384,14486,11762,12748],"class_list":["post-39321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biblioblogging-bible","category-patheos","tag-baffle","tag-blog","tag-blogging","tag-blogs","tag-patheos","tag-posts","tag-slinky","tag-squirrel","tag-top-10"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>Top 10 Posts of 2016<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Counting down the top ten posts in 2016 (some of which were actually written in years past, but they continue to get traffic): #10 The Novelty of the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/top-10-posts-2016.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Top 10 Posts of 2016\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Counting down the top ten posts in 2016 (some of which were actually written in years past, but they continue to get traffic): #10 The Novelty of the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/12\/top-10-posts-2016.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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