The past couple of days I have looked at the most popular and most commented posts of 2010. Both of these reflect what you, the readers, have found most enlightening/uplifting/entertaining about this blog this past year. But now I’d like to select my own ten favorite posts from 2010:

1. Is God searching for you? ^[1] – This post is actually a video I created called “Divine Love” which was based on the “Parisian Love” Google Super Bowl commercial. It chronicles God’s call in a man’s life through his Google searches.
2. The Nine Levels of Prayer ^[2] – Actually a seven-part series, in these posts I delve into the Catholic tradition on the various levels of prayer.
3. What if the Gospels were blogs? ^[3] – I often think about the impact the “New Media” is having on our culture and the way we communicate and even think. So I decided to speculate what it might have been like if Matthew wrote his Gospel as a blog.
4. The difference between a TV confession and a sacramental confession ^[4] – Here I analyzed the difference between the typical modern media confession and sacramental confession.
5. And batting first for the Jerusalem Apostles… ^[5] – I combine my love for early Church history with my love for baseball in this fun post.
6. Verbum Domini and the challenge of Catholic Scripture interpretation ^[6] – One in a series of posts on Verbum Domini, in this post I reflect on the background for understanding the Pope’s very important document on Scripture.
7. You might have a big family if… ^[7] – Once you have more than three children in our culture, you have moved into foreign territory in the eyes of most people. This post has fun with that fact.
8. Analysis of the joint Catholic-Orthodox document on the role of the pope in the 1st millennium ^[8]- In a long post with a long title, I tried to analyze an important, albeit unofficial, document from the joint commission discussing Catholic-Orthodox relations.
9. It is necessary to use words ^[9] – In this post I challenge the misuse of an alleged quote from my favorite saint, St. Francis of Assisi.
10. Fifth era of Catholic-Orthodox relations ^[10] – My deep interest in ecumenical relations with the Orthodox led me to analyze the history between the two Churches over the centuries.

I had a great time writing this blog this year and I hope that it has been enlightening, uplifting and entertaining for all my readers.

May you all have a blessed new year!