Yee-Haw!!! Blog Award!!!

I just want to give a big holler to all who voted for JimmyAkin.Org in the CyberCatholics 2005 Blog Awards! As you can see from the award up top of the page, we won the best apologetics category. Thanks, y’all!

Some folks remarked that they were surprised that I was only nominated in the one category of Best Apologetics Blog. To tell you the truth, I thought there were a number of additional categories in which I could have been a contender ("I couldda been a contender!"–Marlon Brando), but I wasn’t aware of it this year during the nominating process, and so I’m just thankful for whoever nominated me for this category or I wouldn’t have even been eligible to win.

(By contrast, some blogs seemed to show up in an anomalously large number of categories, including one blog that I’d never even heard of and whose hit counter says it has had less than 6,000 hits in the ten months it has existed, so I’m wondering what’s up with that.)

I’m also grateful for having won something. I put in an awful lot of work on the blog, and it’s meaningful to me to see that others value the work enough for it to win an award. So thanks again to all y’all!

Thanks also to the folks at CyberCatholics for putting on the awards and all their hard work.

I’ve put the award in the top margin for the moment because, well, for the moment that’s the best place for it. It’s too wide to fit in my margins without shrinking it. I need to do that and see if the result is acceptable. That’s not the main problem, though: My templates require an extraordinary amount of effort to change. (You have no idea.) It’s much more cumbersome changing them around than it was when I was self-designing the blog, but then that’s the price you pay for automation, I guess. So I parked the image up top until I get sick of it being there, at which point I’ll be motivated to plunge in and edit the templates.

God bless, folks!

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live." View all posts by Jimmy Akin