Wrap up for the month of May

It’s my custom to review activity on this blog at the end of each month. It’s a discipline that forces me to see what’s interesting to the the readership (and what’s not). It’s always surprising.

The hit count for May is nearly as high as back in March — the highest month so far — at nearly 20,000 hits and up 2,000 from April. I’m really not sure why it went back up.

Memorial Day weekend was really low, evidencing that my readers have lives and spend holidays with their families (my readers are well-balanced people), so I was surprised that the monthly total was actually up.

Here are the most popular posts for the month of May —

I’m surprised that some of the most popular posts weren’t even written in May or 2008! “On Communion Meditations” was one my very first posts, going back to February 2007. How it came to get so much traffic is a bit beyond me. I did a Google search to see if someone had highlighted it in a blog, but can’t find any evidence of it. Maybe it’s been discussed in a private discussion group. (I wish someone would tell me.)

Not surprisingly, some of the posts dealing with the declining numbers in the Churches of Christ received a lot of attention.

On the other hand, I thought Communion Meditation: The Blood of the Covenant would be bigger. I mean, it seemed pretty original and significant to me. In fact, I thought someone would disagree with such an unconventional interpretation of the cup.

And I thought the rewrite of the discussion of 1 Cor 11:3 (God is the head of Christ, Christ the head of man, man the head of woman) was pretty original, too, and yet it didn’t elicit so much as a yawn. I mean, I’ve not yet seen a commentary that noticed that 11:3 is built on 8:6 etc. (But I suspect folks are getting tired of the role of women discussion. Oh, well. 🙄 )

But, then, I’ve never been good at predicting these things. 😕

I figure numbers will be down for summer. Folks will be traveling, and the odds are against any traffic generators like Flavil Yeakley’s “Good News and Bad News” report. Then again, whatever is driving the interest in my communion meditations may continue or even heat up. Who knows?