2021 turned out to be the year when I couldn\u2019t manage to keep up my rhythm of sharing a blog post every single day. Having committed to not writing very short posts, perhaps it was only a matter of time. Newspaper columnists traditionally offered something weekly in most cases, and so perhaps aiming to share something worth reading every day was overly ambitious. However, I do think that the context of the pandemic was the key factor. Let\u2019s be honest, no matter who we are or what we do for a living, this has been a draining year, even if it had rewarding moments. Mine certainly did and I hope yours did too. In this post, I\u2019ll focus on looking back at which posts on the ReligionProf blog got the most visits during 2021. I will do other kinds of retrospectives and prospective posts in the not too distant future. For instance,\u00a0I will write more about the coming calendar year\u2019s research, writing, and teaching projects in blog posts in the new year. All of them are at least started and I believe I\u2019ve mentioned most of them here before, but even if I haven\u2019t, you can be sure that little details that seem noteworthy as I research will prompt me to write blog posts. These include:<\/p>\n
So on to the list of top ten blog posts. I will rank and highlight the posts that got the most traffic during 2021 regardless of when they were written. If I didn\u2019t include older posts but limited it to ones\u00a0written<\/em> during 2021, then other blog posts from this year that are in the top 20 when reckoning the way I am here would make it into the top ten. Among these are \u201cJesus Wasn\u2019t Unique\u201d<\/a> and \u201cTampering with the Words of the Bible.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0In my countdown of the posts with the most views this year, I will save the #10 blog post by pageviews until later since the reason it got so much traffic is the same as for another post on the list, and so it makes sense to mention them together then.<\/p>\n Ninth on the list is a tutorial I wrote in 2012 about how to deal with the input menu persistently appearing on the screen of particular models of Insignia TVs<\/a>. In 8th and 6th place are two posts from May of 2021 about conservative Evangelicalism in our time: \u201cIs Evangelical Christianity Irredeemably Patriarchal?\u201d<\/a> and \u201cEvil Rooted in Christianity\u201d<\/a> \u2013 the latter focusing on something Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> tweeted.<\/p>\n