2010: top 10 stories
from Episcopal Café
The end of the year is the time to list top 10 news stories, so your Lead team has come to a consensus on what we see as our top 10. We also have the stats for what our readers read and which stories gathered the most comments. What do you think?
Our choices:
1. Haiti: earthquake and aftermath
2. Proposed Anglican Covenant: changing Anglicanism forever
3. Archbishop of Canterbury: General Synod, Mitregate, Ordinariate
4. Seminaries and $$$: changing fortunes
5. Anglicanism going viral: blogs, social media, Nativity 2.0, videos
6. Charles Bennison's antics vs. Sean Rowe's pastoral care for victims of sexual abuse
7. Mary Glasspool election and consents and consecration, ABC Pentecost letter
8. Virginia Theological Seminary Chapel fire
9. Court rulings in VA, CA, TX, CO
10. Dan Martins election and consents
Top stories in number of visits according to Google Analytics:
Social nativity
VA Supreme Court ruling
Barbie is ordained
VTS fire
Bennison
Dan Martins
Rowan, self trivializing, etc
Glasspool
Armstrong
MitregateSome stories were covered from several angles, use "search" to find them
Top Daily Episcopalian essays in number of visits
An Open Letter to Anne Rice, Jane Redmont
Blue Christmas, Ann Fontaine
Chastity Now, Richard Helmer
Sanctity, Derek Olsen
Confronting Sexual Abuse, Ann Fontaine
Should the Episcopal Church Go Out of Business, George Clifford
Communion Before Baptism, Donald Schell
Thanksgiving, Jim Naughton
Nullfication, James Mathes
Virgin Mary, Derek Olsen
Why I Go to Church, Ellen Painter Dollar
Persons of the Year:
1. Bishop Christopher Senyonjo
2. Bishop Mary Glasspool
3. Dean Colin Slee
Our favorite bishops to quote: Alan Wilson and Desmond Tutu
Our top blogs to quote: Wounded Bird and Thinking Anglicans
Add your favorites in the comments or on Facebook.
