Best of the Blogroll 2025

I like to ring in the new year by recognizing blog neighbors whose work enriched my spiritual life, or contributed to growth in understanding during the year. Here are the best-loved posts of 2025:  

• CADRE Comments - BK, one of the founding members of the CADRE, raises awareness of the purported Moses inscriptions and of his hesitations about using it in historical arguments. 
• Common Denominator - Ken Schenck is a prolific writer and self-publisher, but the piece that interested me most this year was a summary of the development of his thought during a year at seminary. 
• Dr Claude Mariottini has maintained a light post schedule this year. His Christmas post is a worthy read: The Prince of Peace: Isaiah's Promise Fulfilled. 
• Forward Progress - Michael Kelley is a prolific poster of edifying content. His post about 4 effects of being rooted and established in love shows his willingness to take seriously the Christian particulars even if they are subject of scorn in the secular world. His post on 3 reasons for Christians to pursue unity again touches on topics dear to my heart and for the witness of Christianity in the world. And he recognizes (and encourages) the quiet consistency of discipleship, and the value of church membership in A Christian without a church is a Christian in trouble. He closes the year reminding us that "[t]he Great Commission is not negotiable; it's not restrictive; it's also just not that complicated" in Go Tell It on the Mountain that Jesus Christ Is Born. 
• Glory To God For All Things - Father Freeman invites us to explore meaning and the nature of communication, understanding, and thought in Truth, Lies, and Icons. 
• Hyperekperissou keeps up a steady stream of book reviews, sometimes touching on themes of the faith. His review of The Mestizo Augustine raises awareness of how multi-culturalism is not new to our current era. 
• Jennica, periodically posting useful material even if not on a traditional blog site, has a useful reference on quotations from the ante-Nicene Fathers from books in the New Testament. 
• Meta's Blog - Joe Hinman, answering atheist objections to the end, posted his response to those atheists who claim that the gospels are myth as his last post before passing away in 2025. Memory eternal, Joe! 
• The Pocket Scroll calls attention to a collection of Maximus the Confessor's Sayings on Love from the Philokalia. 
• Reading Acts often posts on current academic literature in the field of Biblical Studies, for example this book review of Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics. 
• Roger Pearse is a standout in the field of ancient manuscripts and related fields. This year he has translated some writings of St Jerome into English for the first time (examples here and here). With his customary thorough research and deep sourcing, he also posted an entertaining piece on the modern origins of the Easter bunny. 
• Sun and Shield - while Martin LaBar prefers to give the spotlight to others with his Sunspots series (nearly to 1000 entries at this point), he also posts original material such as his thoughts on the importance of gratitude, noting that grumbling/complaining makes it onto some Biblical lists of sins. 
• Undivided Looking - Aron Wall prefers his posts in-depth and his analysis meticulous. Buckle up for an in-depth dive into Paradoxes of Theodicy. 

Thank you to all Christian bloggers posting informative, uplifting, and edifying content in 2025, both the pieces I'm aware of and the ones I'm not. Best wishes and blessings for 2026!