Best of the Blogroll 2018

I'd like to ring out the old year by highlighting what I saw as the best posts of the year at the blogs that I read regularly.

• CADRE Comments - Joe Hinman does some of his classic solid apologetic work -- reviewing and reality-checking current anti-Christian polemics -- in Early Church Mythers, told you they were coming. 
• Conciliar Post - This blog had outstanding posts by more than one author.
  Matthew Bryan re-opens the discussion on how to understand the atonement without re-engaging the old flame-war in Christus Victor Clarified.
  Timon Cline has edifying reflections on The Enduring Relevance of Reinhold Niehbuhr.
• Dr Platypus - Dr. Pursiful has maintained his blog presence this year by keeping us apprised of the on-line Biblical Studies Carnivals.
• Euangelion - Another site with multiple authors.
  Michael Bird looks at some ways in which abortion benefits men at the expense of women in What If I Told You that Abortion was a Patriarchal Con-Job on Women?
  And Gene Veith considers how the #MeToo movement may have unintentionally awakened people to the moral/ethical issues involved in sex in Warnings Against the "Re-Moralization" of Sex. 
• Forward Progress - Michael Kelley offers encouraging thoughts in While We're Busy Sleeping, Jesus is Busy Praying.
• Glory To God For All Things - Father Stephen meditates on how to move out of the current endless cycle of self-righteous blaming and deflection, how to repent, resolve, and restore in The Sins of a Nation.
• Jesus Creed - Scot McKnight is a prolific author and it seems almost a shame to choose only one entry; doubly so when I choose one re-posted from Reuters, and simply for its ability to console after a rough Christmas. Yet for this I am grateful for his post Christmas in the Vatican.
• Leithart - Earlier this month, Peter Leithart posted news that I was surprised and excited to see: a professional academically-credentialed scholar has covered some of the same lines of inquiry as my long-running series comparing the gospels in Can We Trust the Gospels? (a review of a book by the same name by Peter J Williams).
• Meta's Blog - Joe Hinman is a versatile thinker with wide-ranging interests. I'd recommend How Modern Thinking About God Went Wrong on his solo blog.
• The Pocket Scroll - MJH (who posts under initials to avoid reprisals against Christians in the academic world) considers variations in ancient canon law as an insight into Law and Mercy.
• Sun and Shield - Martin LaBar faithfully and regularly posts edifying content from The Art of Divine Contentment.
• Undivided Looking - Aron Wall takes a refreshingly non-polemical tour of archaeology and the Bible in Some comments on Biblical History.
• Weedon's Blog - I was not able to decide between two posts from the good chaplain this year, and so am mentioning both:
  He ponders the study of prayer and the practice of prayer in Toward a Lutheran Theology of Prayer.
  He also considers being doers of the word in his Homily on James 1.

Old Friends

• Aardvark Alley has been inactive this year. Thank you for your service!
• Quodlibeta - James Hannam came out of blogging retirement with Some thoughts on Toby Huff's The Rise of Early Modern Science.

My gratitude for all who post material that is edifying, uplifting, thoughtful, and wise, and for posts where all are treated with Christian kindness and respect!