Best of the Blogroll 2024

Each year on this blog, I like to welcome the New Year by recognizing blog neighbors whose work enriched my spiritual life during the year. Here are the best-loved posts of 2024:  

• Common Denominator - Ken Schenck is a prolific blogger and YouTuber, and that's just in his spare time. For a sample, see his 2024 year in review. 
• Conciliar Post is on my reading list because of its work in Christian reconciliation, a longstanding interest of mine. This year they reached their 10-year anniversary and announced the publication of selected conversations from the first 10 years of their blog.  
• Dr Claude Mariottini has gone to a lighter posting schedule this year. He posted about Moses and YHWH's interaction face-to-face. 
• Forward Progress - Michael Kelley is a prolific poster of edifying content. Hiss post about The Surest Way to Resist the Devil was both insightful and humbling. I was blessed by his fellowship-centric post on Three Reasons Why 2 Are Better Than 1. I was grateful for his Biblical faithfulness and clarity about temptation when focusing on the original temptation, "has God really said?" His post on "Three Promises You Woke Up To This Morning" are a welcome breath of good news in a sometimes dark world. 
• Glory To God For All Things - Father Freeman's post showed me unexplored depths on the view of sin as "missing the mark" with his ponderings on purpose, direction, the identity of the target as God, and the identity of the arrow as ourselves. 
• Hyperekperissou keeps up a steady and faithful stream of book reviews, such as a recent book about contemporary monasticism. 
• Meta's Blog - Joe Hinman contributes to the field of answering atheist objections. One persistent area of focus is explaining atonement, in which he advocates for understanding atonement as God's solidarity with humanity.  
• The Pocket Scroll - One of his posts that I loved best this year was on spiritual self-control and tools in the post Join the battle, for you are already in it. In another particularly edifying one, he explored how knowing God informs preaching, and included the gem "Theology is good because it helps us know and love God more."
• Reading Acts often posts on current academic literature in the field of Biblical Studies, and takes it in turn to host the Biblical Studies Carnival such as this recent one (November 2024). 
• Roger Pearse is a standout in the field of ancient manuscripts and related fields. I actually had a chatbot use his site as a reference within the last month, and for an area I hadn't realized he'd covered. Some of his thought-provoking posts this year include The Megiddo Mosaic, and a book review of Saints of Ethiopia, which touches on an interest of mine in the under-remembered heritage of Christianity in many places in the world. 
• Sun and Shield - Martin LaBar posted an intriguing collection of hymns and spiritual songs with imagery of rocks and stones, and a related post on rocks and stones in Biblical imagery. There is a lot of depth in Scripture which God reveals through imagery, and it needs someone who follows the deeper themes and motifs of Scripture and God's self-revelation. There lies some of the "treasure hidden in a field" for those who take the time to look for it. 
• Thinking Christian - Tom Gilson contributes a reality-check about serving in the mission field right here at home. 
• Undivided Looking - Aron Wall continued his in-depth series on comparative religion with a piece on the moral depth of religions. 

Thank you to all Christian bloggers in 2024 for posting informative, uplifting, and edifying content, both the ones I'm aware of and the ones I'm not. Best wishes and blessings for 2025!