MetaCatholic

A happy blogging birthday to metacatholic. My first post here was May 1st 2007, when I decided to take this blogging lark seriously and move over from some on-off-on desultory attempts on Blogger.

A few boring and nothing much to be proud of stats. In that year I’ve amassed 544 posts (so around one-and-a-half a day), had 61,102 visits, and blotted out 8,462 spam comments.

Many happy returns to me, and a big thank you to all those who I’ve complimented, insulted and otherwise interacted with here or in the comments of their own blogs.

written by doug

Jim West has done a terrific job in getting the new Biblical Studies Carnival up and running almost before the month has started. It is an excellent and wide-ranging survey, with lots of tasty links to follow–up. It is really impressive that Jim can read so widely among books, conference notices, discussion lists and blogs, and still be entirely wrong about such basics as the synoptic problem. One of the most noticeable things about Jim’s survey is the way he holds back his own opinions, and restrains himself is it’s clarity of forceful opinion, entertainingly expressed. I like a man who’s not afraid to be wrong in public. (Possibly the only thing he has in common with the Bishop of Durham.)

No, seriously, Jim, thank you for an excellent and ultra-punctual resource. There’s a lot here to browse I hadn’t seen.

written by doug