It’s fairly common for magazines to round up their most-read articles as one year is making way for the next. We are no exception: in my first full January on the job here, we published our top 10 pieces from 2022. 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. 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 and one from Richard Lischer about the tension between reconciliation and resistance. Plus even more below.
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