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I’ve recently been writing to different Catholic sites offering to write\u00a0some guest posts. As I’ll be taking my book manuscript to publishers shortly I thought it’d be good to get my name appearing on more websites \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nI’ve recently been writing to different Catholic sites offering to write\u00a0some guest posts. As I’ll be taking my book manuscript to publishers shortly I thought it’d be good to get my name appearing on more websites \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
As\u00a0I wrote my first email to an editor, describing\u00a0the kind of topics I typically discuss, I wondered which of my articles have been the most popular. I knew which of my posts I most enjoyed, but what were the posts which were most popular among the readers?<\/p>\n
Fortunately, WordPress has a variety of admin tools which allow you to gauge\u00a0this.\u00a0I found some of the entries rather surprising, so I decided to write a post identifying my top eleven<\/a> most\u00a0popular posts…<\/p>\n #1\u00a0OSAS and three cups of tea<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(11,000 views) #2\u00a0He-Man, Christian Allegory and Transubstantiation<\/a><\/strong> (9,000 views) #3\u00a0IC XC<\/a><\/strong> (8,000 views) #4\u00a0Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Catholic<\/a><\/strong> (5,000 views) #5 What is the significance of “IHS”?<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(3,000 views) #6 Discernment with Fr. Matt Spahr<\/a><\/strong> (3,000 views) #7 The end is nigh<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(3,000 views) #8 What Planned Parenthood does and does not do<\/a><\/strong> (3,000 views) #9 Jesus, the New Moses<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(3,000 views)
\nI was initially surprised this post came out on top. It was the first part in a three-part response of a rebuttal\u00a0to my post on Eternal Security<\/a>. I think it received so many views because it was reproduced in its entirety over at Shameless Popery<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis is one of my favourites! This was a post I wrote for April Fool’s Day. Earlier in the year I had been visiting Washington DC and gone out for a drink with Joe Heschmeyer where I shared my tongue-in-cheek theory about He-Man. At his urging this insanity finally made it down on paper.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis was one of my early posts about the the letters found all over the interior of most Byzantine Churches. Apparently a lot of people want to know what they mean and Google sends them to me!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI think this one got all this traffic purely because of the title.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis was another post about Church decoration. Posts like this unfortunately attract the conspiracy theory loving, Jack Chick reading, surfers of the Internet (see the comments<\/a>), but still, these posts seem to be very popular and I think I’ll write some more articles on symbolism in the next few months.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nOn my blog I host the recordings from the local Theology On Tap sessions and this has, by far, received the greatest number of downloads, even beating a talk on relationships by Jackie Francois-Angel! Fr. Matt is the pastor of the Immaculata in San Diego and is, in my humble opinion, one of the best homilists in San Diego.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRemember when Harold Camping said that the world was going to end?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis was a very recent post but got shared a bunch on Facebook. I feel a bit bad\u00a0since it was originally Abby Johnson’s material, but still, it was good to get the information out there.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis was a real surprise! I’m not sure why, but apparently a lot of people want to read about the parallels between Jesus and Moses.<\/em><\/p>\n