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BP’s Top 10 most-read stories of 2025

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NASHVILLE (BP) – In January, who could have predicted that BP’s most-read first-person of 2025 would also be the overall most-read story? And that it would be about Ozzy Osbourne?

A moving piece from Missouri pastor Rich Bitterman used the July death of the “Prince of Darkness” to delve into our bodies’ mortality and our souls’ immortality. The autobiographical essay struck a nerve with a lot of people and became the year’s most-read story.

Below are the 10 most-read stories, First-Person pieces and Toolbox pieces on Baptist Press’ website this year:

Top 10 BP stories

  1. FIRST-PERSON: The day the ‘Prince of Darkness’ died [2]
  2. U.S. missionary kidnapped in Niger, reports say [3]
  3. Faith on the field: 11 NC high school football players baptized after recent practice [4]
  4. First Baptist Opelika mourns unexpected death of pastor [5]
  5. Southern Baptist leaders release statement on Charlie Kirk’s death, call for justice [6]
  6. Well-known speaker, theologian Voddie Baucham dies at 56 after medical emergency [7]
  7. Historic Georgia church to become campus of First Baptist Woodstock [8]
  8. ‘Just not bearable’: 70 Christians beheaded in Democratic Republic of Congo [9]
  9. Federal judge drops all but one count in Johnny Hunt’s lawsuit against SBC, Guidepost Solutions [10]
  10. The First Hymn: Resurrected third-century praise song set for pre-Easter release [11] 

Top 10 First-Persons: 

  1. The day the Prince of Darkness died [2] (Rich Bitterman)
  2. Cooperation calls for working together [12] (Jeff Iorg)
  3. Separating fact from conspiracy in Kirk assassination [13] (Adam Groza)
  4. Winning against pornography [14] (Todd Gray)
  5. Do we still need the ERLC? [15] (Richard Land)
  6. A tribute to Dr. Keith Harper [16] (Nathan Finn and Keith Whitfield)
  7. Four things a pastor is not [17] (Mark Dance)
  8. Why am I a Southern Baptist? [18] (Jason Duesing)
  9. God’s gift to W.A. Criswell [19] (Barry Creamer)
  10. A foundational choice [20] (Jeff Iorg)

Top 10 Toolbox entries: 

  1. The silent exodus of senior adults [21] (Thom Rainer)
  2. Five ways to care for your pastor [22] (Todd Gray)
  3. How to recognize insecure spirituality [23] (Jeremy Linneman)
  4. Five reasons why 2025 will be a pivotal year for many churches [24] (Thom Rainer)
  5. 12 markers for pastoral bitterness [25] (Chuck Lawless)
  6. Seven reasons God leads leaders into tough situations [26] (Chuck Lawless)
  7. 30 ways to honor your pastor [27] (Chuck Lawless)
  8. Digital worship fatigue [28] (Thom Rainer)
  9. Things I’ve learned since leaving the pastorate [29] (Marty Duren)
  10. Five reasons Millennial pastors are not moving to larger churches [30] (Thom Rainer)

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