Top 10 in 2011

I know it's a little late to be serving up a 2011 retrospective. The new year? That was so three weeks ago.

Well, I would have done this earlier, but we've been making a big transition here at Gifted for Leadership, and quite honestly, it's taken me a few weeks to figure out where everything is. Now that I have found my way to the computer, I'm actually writing this post for two reasons: to tell you which blog posts and downloads were most popular among our readers in 2011 (as promised in the title) and to (re)introduce myself.

Second things first.

Some of you may recognize my name; many of you are new to Gifted for Leadership since I last served at the editorial helm. Back in 2007, when Gifted for Leadership launched, I was the editor who started and oversaw this blog. I also wrote frequent posts myself. During the next few years, other editors took responsibility for Gifted for Leadership while I worked on other projects in my role as an executive at Christianity Today.

Not long ago, I moved into a new role here at Christianity Today, dropping my executive responsibilities and working part-time in an editorial capacity so I could have more flexibility to be with my children and to work on some writing projects. Around the same time, our most recent editor, Marian Liautaud, found she had some other projects that were threatening to take all of her time. Long story short, she hasn't gone anywhere but she has handed responsibility for Gifted for Leadership back to me.

So here I am, back to overseeing the editorial plan for a resource I dearly love and dreaming about what the future might hold for this publication. I have so much respect for you, our audience of gifted women serving in the church. I feel privileged to serve you as you seek to serve Christ and his church according to your gifts. And I am committed to bringing you the best possible content on a weekly basis. I hope what we're doing here challenges you, encourages you, and helps you to feel that you're not alone.

Speaking of great content, I haven't forgotten my plan to introduce you to the list of our most popular blog posts and downloads in 2011. If it's been a while since you read these resources, or if you haven't yet seen them, check them out. These are the ones that this community downloaded and read most frequently during the last year¬—so they must be worth a look, right?