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Wednesday 28 July 2010

7 links challenge

Philip Ritchie tagged me with the 7 links challenge:

1. Your first post – Glory Days was a meditation on the song of the same name by Just Jack.

2. A post you enjoyed writing the most – I've most enjoyed doing the Windows on the World series because I've enjoyed taking the photos and having a focus for my photography. Here is the 100th Windows on the World post.

3. A post which had a great discussion – The series of posts which generated the most interesting and continuing discussion was The Bible - Open or Closed? where Philip Ritchie and I had an ongoing discussion about the nature of scripture. The first post in the series is here. The single post that generated the most discussion was my second post about the Holy Spirit in the World Today conference.

4. A post on someone else's blog that you wish you'd written – This is hard as there is so much that is interesting which is being written. Posts that have been influential have included Sam Norton on Peak Oil and Peter Banks on music but the one post that I want to highlight is Some thoughts about the shape of the church to come... by Paul Trathen, simply because I agree with all that he writes in it.

5. A post with a title that you are proud of – The value of pointlessness which highlighted a quote from Armando Iannuci about spirituality.

6. A post that you wish more people had read – My short story A Disappearance, which I rate both as a story and in terms of its conceit; that fast living literally wears out your body. The four posts are here, here, here and here.

7. Your most visited post ever – New Church Art Trail has had the most visits. Encouraging that a recent post has been getting the most attention.

Here's an addition to the list:

8. Your most serendipitous post - Annie & Bernard Walke - I posted about this artist & priest couple at the same point that Paul Trathen was reading Bernard Walke's autobiography and posting about it on facebook.

I tag Tim Goodbody and Paul Trathen.

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4 comments:

Fr Paul Trathen, Vicar said...

Wow, a real surprise to be mentioned, Jon, given that I am such a very occasional blogger!

Jonathan Evens said...

I'd meant to comment about your post on the future of the Church at the time you posted it but it's as much as I can manage generally to get my own stuff posted so, of course, didn't get around to it. I did think it was a really good summary of possible (more hopefully, probable) future trends though. So, I'm glad to have come back to it here. It definitely lodged itself in my memory.

Jonathan Evens said...

I'd meant to comment about your post on the future of the Church at the time you posted it but it's as much as I can manage generally to get my own stuff posted so, of course, didn't get around to it. I did think it was a really good summary of possible (more hopefully, probable) future trends though. So, I'm glad to have come back to it here. It definitely lodged itself in my memory.

Jonathan Evens said...

I'd meant to comment about your post on the future of the Church at the time you posted it but it's as much as I can manage generally to get my own stuff posted so, of course, didn't get around to it. I did think it was a really good summary of possible (more hopefully, probable) future trends though. So, I'm glad to have come back to it here. It definitely lodged itself in my memory.