Gender Blog: The Year in Review

Tomorrow marks a major milestone in the life of Gender Blog: the one year anniversary of serving the church with daily biblical commentary on the goodness of God's design of manhood and womanhood.  And as everyone knows in high-speed "Internet time," one whole year of blogging is a very long time indeed.  (It seems like seven years in real life, which is about 49 doggie years.)

It has been a speedy twelve months, and we look forward to celebrating a year of God's amazing grace to us.  We are also grateful for the growing support of tens of thousands of readers and are stunned that more than 2,000 of you have linked to Gender Blog in the last six months alone.  (For those of you who are geeky enough to track such things, that means the independent blog ranking service Technorati lists Gender Blog in the top 10,000 of more than 9 million worldwide.  For a blog narrowly focused on biblical gender fidelity to be in the top 99.9% of all blogs is almost miraculous.)

For those who may have recently joined us as readers, we wanted to provide the links to some of the more popular posts from this past year.   Even if you have already read some of them, these highlights are worth reading a second time and even sending to a friend. The most popular post this year conveyed Courtney Tarter's journey to embrace the gospel instead of other ideologies in "Confessions of a Recovering Feminist."   Jessica Connell penned a letter to her daughter Maranatha, and it turned out to be a blessing for thousands of readers in "Thoughts on Being a Wife and Mother: a Letter to My Daughter."

Gender Blog always seeks to provide biblical insight into current events such as the nomination of Sarah Palin, same-sex marriage in California, and female bishops in the Church of England.  We scan the news widely each day, so you can stay informed of lower visibility, but no less important developments in the culture.  Some of these include "Marriage Is at a Hundred Year Low," "Boston Clinic Offering Help for Transgender Children," "Gender-Pac Foments for a Gender Free Society," and "Marriage to Robots Is Inevitable?"

A continual goal of Gender Blog is to edify, educate, and encourage believers.  To this end, we ran several series including "Every Man's Call to Biblical Masculinity," "Olympic Competition and Manhood and Womanhood," "Eternal Subordination of the Son," and "Baseball, Biblical Masculinity, and Godly Character."

Just for fun, Gender Blog tries to include the lighter side of the gender debate, such as, "Hello Kitty, Goodbye Discipline Problems." In the future look for more posts on how gender is represented in art and media, and we started this year with a two-part review of the Narnian classic Prince Caspian.

Thank you for reading Gender Blog. We are grateful for the privilege of declaring His "glory among the nations; his marvelous works among all the peoples" (Psalm 96:3).