Mild-Mannered Musings Turns 2 Years Old!

Earlier this month, my blog passed its two-year anniversary. In honor of this event, I thought I'd share the year's stats and highlights. Traffic this year was up 50% from last year, with 15,518 visits from 11,587 absolute unique visitors. Special thanks are due to Times and Seasons, Mormon Times, and Latter-day Main Street, the blogs that referred the most traffic to my site. By far the top search strings that brought people here were "sheum" and "positive thinking songs".

The ten most viewed pages of the year:

1. The Top Ten Positive Thinking Songs of All Time
2. Head Coverings in 1 Corinthians 11:3-16
3. Mormons Give More, Says Christianity Today
4. My Favorite Joseph Smith Revelation
5. Interview with Pastor Dean Jackson, "Peacemaker in Provo"
6. Sheum in the Book of Mormon
7. Baptism of the Holy Ghost and Fire!
8. The Rediscovery of Joseph Smith's Egyptian Alphabet and Grammar: A Short History
9. The Silence of Women Is Golden?: 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
10. Man Cannot Live by Bread Alone: Night by Elie Wiesel

Many of my own favorites, of course, didn't make the list. Here are a few good ones you may have missed:

1. Joseph Smith's Seeker Uncle
2. Some Old Art of Mine
3. You Have to Have Religion Before You Can Have Relationship
4. Can a Mormon Be a Compatibilist?
5. Ben Franklin's Plurality of Gods
6. The Night I Spoke in Tongues
7. The Biblical Case Against Biblical Inerrancy
8. Alabama Supreme Court Strikes Down Law Defining Christian Religion
9. Mosiah Priority and the Therefore/Wherefore Shift
10. Universalism Among the Early Church Fathers

I've also done some fun things off-site this year, including my paper "In Defense of a Christian Pluralism" in the JRRT, and my interview on the Book of Abraham with the Mormon Expression Podcast.

So, as I embark on another year of sporadic blogging, I'd just like to say, thank you everyone for reading. It has been a pleasure to share my thoughts with you all here, and to enjoy your thoughts on all of your blogs, as well. Ihope that everyone had a very merry Christmas, and that your New Year will be even better still!