Alright, so this blog was only started in August, but I will participate in the tradition anyway.

Thank you to all of my readers. I hope you have been encouraged/informed, as I certainly have been from the experience so far. Please let me know your thoughts below on how best to improve this blog and increase readership. What do you read this blog for, and how can I deliver more of that?

August:

The launch. This blog started off posting almost every day.

The post that put me “on the map”, or at least began the process, was my collection of thoughts on Ron Paul, and why he had me confused. My thoughts have evolved somewhat since then, and I hope to revisit them later.

I also began my Government in Scripture series. I admit to being somewhat out of material at the moment (I guess I need to read my Bible more…), but it went strong for a while.

If you have any scripture that relates to government that you would like to see commented on, please let me know. You can either do a guest post here, or just let me write something about it.

September:

The first full month. I began the Government Tyranny roundups, which are simply depressing to do, but necessary, I think.

This is the month I blew up with 2 popular posts.

One was a response to the Evangelical Outpost’s uneducated remarks on Ron Paul. And thanks to a mention on LewRockwell.com by Casey Khan, it met with mild success.

The dark waters of satire were also ventured into. I put up my tips on how to read the bible correctly, kind of just for fun, and it turned out to be my most popular post up to that point, generating 28 comments. I will definitely be doing more satire, as it is a great way of framing truth.

My piece on Christians using the violence of the state to accomplish their goals, thus calling their morality into question, encapsulates, I believe, what this blog is all about, and the mindset I want to combat. It stirred up some controversy, mainly because I used the venerable Dr. James Dobson as the example I picked on.

October:

This was the month that Sailorcurt and I went back and forth on foreign policy.

The only other thing of note this month was this blogs nomination as the 2007 Blogging Rookie of the Year. New Liberty Creation got lost in the midst of a large number of quality startups.

November:

November saw my single most popular post about The Golden Compass. It generated 40 comments, from several different sides of the polygonal argument, and is still getting traffic, even after the movie came and puttered away irrelevantly.

With my piece on Plato, I also began what I hope becomes a long series of posts that challenge the fundamental assumptions of modern Christianity. Should Christians look more like pagans holding to Plato’s idea of the soul, or should they look more Biblical?

December:

The slowest month so far, and least number of posts. I confess to losing some of my motivation, because I wasn’t seeing any progress, and readership plateaued no matter what I did. I got tantalizingly close to breaking 50 RSS readers one day in November, but then it plummeted to the mid-thirties and has never gotten higher since.

I hope to start the New Year off strong, however. Again I ask, what can I do to improve?

Thanks again for reading.

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