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** The most popular pieces of 2024
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It’s fairly common for magazines to round up their most-read articles as one year is making way for the next. For years we have published a list around New Year’s Day of our top 10 pieces from the year that is ending. Then last winter I was struck by a bolt of bizarre ambition, and we instead published the collection of our “top 23 from 2023.”
Not to be outdone, the current version of me is excited to introduce to you our 24 most-read articles of 2024 ([link removed]) . Jokes aside, the beauty of a list this robust is that it covers a broad range of topics and it’s bound to contain a gem you missed last year. It’s got Dietrich Bonhoeffer, drag queens, New Testament scrolls, epic fantasy novels, Gen Z youth groups… and I’m delighted that my review of five exvangelical memoirs made the list.
If you are the rare (and all-star) reader who already scoured every page of every 2024 print issue, fear not! We also have brand new content for you, including two reflections on Christian faith during a second Trump administration—one from Kelly Brown Douglas about the demands of the cross ([link removed]) and one from Richard Lischer about the tension between reconciliation and resistance ([link removed]) . Plus even more below.
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** Our top 24 of 2024 ([link removed])
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Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
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** What does it mean to be a Christian in these times? ([link removed])
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“The cross demands that we join in God’s eternal mission to create a loving and just world.”
by Kelly Brown Douglas, one of our new Voices columnists
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** How shall we render? ([link removed])
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Thankfully, the Christian tradition is filled with models of resistance to unjust leaders.
by Richard Lischer
** In the Lectionary for January 26 (Epiphany 3C) ([link removed])
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When Jesus steps up to read the scroll, he comes home to a place of clarity.
by Charisse R. Tucker
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** The consolation of studying theology ([link removed])
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“If the study of theology is so uncomfortable, what keeps students coming back to these classrooms?”
by Andrew Packman
** What can the church offer trans people right now? ([link removed])
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“The Eucharist is the cherishing of the new creation, which holds a table huge enough for cis and trans and, frankly, everyone.”
by Rachel Mann
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