2008 Blog Madness at SBC Voices

Update #1: I’ve had to edit some vote totals due to irregular polling results. In other words, please don’t vote 33 times for your same blogger from the same internet connection in a matter of 2 minutes!

I’ve also made the polling security a little tighter to discourage those excessive displays of affection. This will make make it harder for voters from the same IP to vote. Sorry I had to lock the doors. If anyone has notices erratic jumps in results, please let me know and I’ll check it out.

Last September, Les Puryear wrote a post on his blog titled Who’s Who In SBC Blogging. I was honored to be mentioned in his list for my children’s ministry blog. This post by Les was one of the itches that led me to create SBC Voices. I began to see how powerful it would be to connect Southern Baptist bloggers on a larger scale.

With March Madness upon us, I thought it would be a fun time to revisit the question of Who’s Who? The best, and most democratic, way to do this is a tournament style poll. The first round will run for one week, ending next Sunday night. The top four blogs in each division will move on to the next round.

I selected and seeded the blogs based on three factors:

The authority of their blog
The percent of posts discussing SBC issues
My own subjectivity – I apologize if I’ve underestimated your blog

You will notice that I’ve excluded bloggers who do not have comments. In terms of this tournament, those blogs are considered online editorials. The beauty of this system is that you get to vote for who advances to the next round. I’ve been running a similar bracket style tournament at Said at Southern.

So, who do you think are the most influential Southern Baptist bloggers?

East Division

sbc IMPACT (Geoff Baggett & Team)
SBC Outpost (Team Blog)
Confessions of a Pastor (Hershael York)
Tim Ellsworth
Reformissionary (Steve McCoy)
Church Matters Blog (Team Blog)
Kingdom People (Trevin Wax)
SBC Witness (Team Blog)
Eagles Rest (Bob Cleveland)
For His Renown (Jim Hamilton)
aintsobad (Rick Davis)
Said at New Orleans Seminary
Through The Veil (Scott)
We Are Texas Baptists
The Report (CB Scott)
Confessions Of A Small Church Pastor (Chuck Warnock)
Veritas and Ecclesia (Joe Stewart)
The Fullness of Time (Nathan Finn)*

*After some helpful comments, I realized that I omitted this excellent blog which often covers SBC related issues. What is an SBC vote without a little controversy?
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