Top 20 Posts of 2025

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Hi readers! Here's the post with the roundup of my top blog posts from 2025. 

In 2025 I published more blog posts than I have in any other year. About half of them were my "blogaround" link roundups- and when I was checking the page views I was actually really surprised to see a bunch of the top posts by page views were blogaround posts. Apparently a lot of people are reading them? Thank you to those of you who are reading and sharing the links~ always appreciate that.

In this list, I'm not including the blogaround posts because they are just links, not me saying anything insightful. But like, real talk, I do spend a lot of time on rounding up links. So I'm glad people are reading them.

Anyway, here are the top 8 posts by page views:

1. Motivated By Inerrancy Or Sexism? "So that's when it hit me- these commentary writers really don't care about women, do they? This is just blatant sexism."

2. This 93% Stat About Dads is Totally Made-Up "You would have to find a bunch of families (how do you define family, exactly? Do the parents have to be married? Are we only looking at families with minor children?) where all members are non-Christians, and then track them (for how long? Barr says 10 or 20 years, that seems about right). You would then check if any of the individuals in these families converted to Christianity (what does that mean, exactly- who defines what "convert to Christianity" means? Do they have to be active in a church for it to count?)."

3. "Pure": A Book About the Aftermath of Purity Culture "Like Muriel, I also was genuinely confused about how teenagers get pregnant. Just could not make heads or tails of anything- how my experience of sex was in a different universe from the way everybody else talked about sex."

4. Video Game Museum of CADPA (Shanghai, China) The photos I took at the video game museum.

5. God and the Overton Window "Our opinions, our understandings of our own identities, they are all anchored on the range of possibilities that our own culture views as possible. But God shouldn't be limited in that way, right? God is outside of all that? But what does that even mean, to be outside of society and culture- could They even have an identity that makes sense to us? Could They even tell us anything about morality, that we could understand? Could we even know Them at all?"

6. "Text, Image, & Otherness in Children's Bibles" (I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH) "But if you read a children's bible, it cleans all that up. In the universe of children's bibles, the bible is a nice story about God's love, and how we should live our lives as good people. ... This is not what the bible is, and I hate it."

7. "I Want a Popsicle" (a bilingual book for Asian children, about feelings) "The author's website says, 'We are on a mission to provide bilingual resources for Asian American families to explore and understand emotions.'"

8. ICE and Hell "The apologetics nerds know that we have signed on to worship a God who ordered a man to be executed for gathering wood on the Sabbath. We know."

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And here are the top 12 posts that I like but didn't have the most page views:

1. The Bible and "Purity" "Well, first of all, the bible does NOT teach that it is a sin for men to have sex outside of marriage, in the general case."

2. The Bible and Polygamy "Buckle up, I have receipts. We're going to look at polygamy in the bible, and we're going to see that it's NOT consistently portrayed as a bad thing."

3. "Elemental": a movie about immigration, culture, and giving up the life your parents built for you "I was very impressed with how this movie portrayed the sense of being out of place, of standing out in a foreign environment, of being constantly inconvenienced by societal structures which everyone else feels are normal."

4. On Living Far Away From One's Family For Financial Reasons "And, yeah, I believe it's a bad idea to marry someone if you don't want to. But I also think it's a bad idea to live in China as an illegal immigrant, but I can't judge because obviously I don't know what her situation was in the Philippines, and why she decided to come to China, and how long she initially planned to stay, and if her life is better in China than it would have been in the Philippines, and if she is earning money for the purpose of supporting family in the Philippines, etc."

5. Believing in the God You Want "I was never impressed with the ontological argument, but isn't this kind of the same thing?"

6. The Power Dynamics of the "Personal Relationship With God" "I need some space away from God, to think my own thoughts and feel my own feelings. Let me be wrong, let me figure things out on my own, let me change and grow. I don't want to talk to Them."

7. "Maybe God Is Like That Too" (kids' book review) This is THE BEST Christian book for kids that I've read.

8. "The Case For Open Borders" (book review) "To treat someone as a completely different type of person- as an illegal immigrant with no rights- just because of some imaginary line- it's immoral. It's just straight-up immoral."

9. "Portfolios of the Poor" (book review) "The book emphasized how extremely important it is that options such as microloans from formal providers are available to poor people. This is something that helps them a lot. But it doesn't look like the glamorous stories that charities tell, about how everyone is going to be an entrepreneur and escape from poverty."

10. "Genesis for Normal People": Separating "what the writer meant" from "what is true" and "what it means for us" "It has made me realize how much those assumptions- that the bible is true and meaningful to our lives now- distort our understanding of the bible, causing us to read things into the story which totally aren't there, and to ignore what the writers were actually saying."

11. Why do we only talk about transvaginal ultrasounds when we talk about abortion? "I mean, forgive me if I find this sudden concern for people who can't tolerate transvaginal ultrasounds a bit fake."

12. What Would Abraham Do? (a bible fanfic) A little bible fanfic where Sarah notices that Abraham and Isaac have gone to the mountain to make a sacrifice, but didn't take a goat, and she wonders, terrified, if that means Abraham intends to sacrifice Isaac, and if he's the kind of person who would really go through with it.

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My plans for the blog in 2026 are, basically just keep writing about everything, like I always do. I have so many ideas for blog posts in my drafts. In the near future, you can look forward to posts about R. L. Stollar's book "The Kingdom of Children," which I am reading now and enjoying.

Thanks for reading!