I’m a sucker for end-of-the-year lists. Hopefully, you are too, since I’m planning a few list-driven posts for the next couple of weeks.
This first list involves controversial posts that I have written this past year. Now, I use the word “controversy” loosely. I mean, let’s face it: there’s only so much “hell” one can raise with a blog and an opinionated post. Plus, I certainly don’t want you guys to think I take myself (as well as my blogging) too seriously.
Certainly I do have moments when I fall short of God’s glory (in hopes of discovering my own!) and end up thinking more highly of myself than I ought to. But that’s not my goal.
Anyway, I say all of that to make sure you realize that I realize that true controversy isn’t really happening here at my blog.
But I suppose “controversy” is relative. Isn’t pretty much everything relative these days? Never mind. I won’t go there. 😉
So… what were my 5 most controversial blog posts in 2009? Here they are in no particular order.
– My post about masturbation. My biggest surprise about this article/topic? According to opinions expressed in the comments, a lot of God-fearing women are fare more pro masturbation than their male counterparts. That probably shouldn’t have surprised me. But it did.
– My open letter to John Piper. Some people have asked if I regret writing/posting it, and I don’t. However, if I were to write it again, I would have offered a bit more explanation of the Twitter conversation/explosion that sparked following Piper mentioning “blowtorch” and “porn” in the same Tweet. Looking back, I realize my lack of explanation caused some of the anger over this post. I said “some.” (This post caused more people to write me and tell me to “go to hell” more than anything I have ever written. From my vantage point, I’ve been able to make more jokes about “Jesus” (or people’s idea of “Jesus”) than I was about John Piper.)
– My post about unmarried intimacy. No surprises here. Premarital anything is controversial to somebody, so I knew this post would create some buzz.
– My post about what wives should know ‘sexually’ about their husbands. Well, by mentioning the male G-spot, I did think that might get me into a little trouble. But surprisingly, that wasn’t too much of an issue. Most of the controversy sparked by this post happened because some Christians don’t believe Christians should talk about this kind of stuff. Some people (both men and women) loved this post–I had men at church stopping me and thanking me for it. One guy wrote to tell me that his wife had sent it to him via email (he was away on business)–he wanted to thank me because it made for an amazing homecoming. Others hated it. One lady wrote me an email to tell me that my flippant use of words like “penis” “testicles” and “pubic” disgusted her. She opened her letter that she was a long-time reader and a fan of one of my books… by the end of the paragraph she told me that she would be deleting my blog off her reader and giving my book to Goodwill. I’m not sure why she wouldn’t just throw my book away.
– My post about Joel Osteen’s new book. Most people loved this post. But the few who didn’t–hated it with a “holy” passion. I lost a few readers with this one, but gained a bunch more. Not that it’s all about gaining/losing readership… but that is often how people “reward” or “punish” a blogger.
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