General Synod: Sneaking in a radical growth strategy whilst everyone else is looking at women bishops (1556)
Church Growth in the CofE - Discussion Paper (1275) short paper for local clergy/churches based on a CofE General Synod paper on church growth
Absent Fathers Day (1154) reflections on a Centre for Social Justice report on fatherhood, or rather the lack of it, in vast numbers of families.
Flashmob Wedding (914) Kate Bottley sets an example to vicars everywhere
Church of England Headline Generator (837) can't take any credit for this, simply a one sentence link to the Beaker Folk
Minion Praise (816) excellent.
Church of England - Not Levelling Out (805) doing my Morrissey act on some positive reporting of CofE attendance stats earlier in the year.
Christians the most persecuted religious body on the planet (741)
Papal Shortlist (728) not entirely serious. Perhaps we should be thankful someone else got the job.
Youth Run riot in Yeovil (725) possibly not what you're expecting from the headline. That's deliberate.
Most commented was Making Parenting Pay, which isn't saying a lot as most of these posts don't get any comments at all!
Most popular posts overall on this blog are from previous years, on the spirituality or otherwise of Coldplays Mylo Xyloto and this one on the future of the CofE (yes, yet another one, it also generated most discussion), looking at how a church based on having 15,000 full-time frontline staff will cope when it only has 5,000.
More and more traffic to the blog has come via Twitter - it's no coincidence that several of these top posts were written around the time of General Synod, and the #synod hashtag generated a lot more interest than usual. Inter-blog traffic is fading, but thankyou to anyone who's blogged or tweeted a link here, especially Cookies Days, Thinking Anglicans and God and Politics. I hope there's been something worth reading!
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