And the last installment of the blog "look back" covers October through December.

October

• Shared my notes from my talk at the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta.
• Most of the month was taken up with posts from Krakow, Poland and Rome, Italy. Near the end, I opined on "When the Mission Gets Lost in the System" and listed the posts at the end of that entry. A final wrap up and summary came a bit later.
• Launched the B&H Leadership Book interviews with Thom and Sam Rainer.
• LifeWay Research released new research on the voting plans of Protestant pastors (and they did not reflect how the general public voted).
• Ended the month with some seasonally appropriate research on haunted houses.

November

• One of the more widely linked posts was "Speaking of Jesus and Justice," which was an expanstion of my comments in USAToday.
• In the month of November, we started and ended a conflict with a self-centered missional thinker named Al.
• Discussed the house church movement and how widespread it really is.

December

• A series on cooperation (still to be finished) overlapped November and December and included posts on cooperation, the SBC, denominations, and networks. The Next-Wave e-zine will be reprinting the post on denominations as an article. More on that later...
• Published a post responding to a critique of our research.
• Shared a series of videos about Comeback Churches with the Assemblies of God.
• Posted a humorous (but pointed) post on Social Networking.
• One of the more commneted-upon posts was from Penn Jillette, an atheist, talking about proselytizing.
• My response to some criticism of my comments from Michael Medved.
• A blog post on the problem with lying among many Christian leaders.

It has been a good blog year-- thanks for coming by and being a reader and, hopefully, a participant.