Last week I teased that we would be releasing our list of the 25 most-read articles on the Century website in 2025. I’m excited to share that list today: here it is. I enjoy discovering and publishing this list every year for a few reasons. For one, it highlights really thoughtful and inspiring essays from our diverse team of contributors. It also serves as a little time capsule into what was happening—and what mattered most to our readers—last year.
Scroll down for all that, plus a fun video of the week with photographer Ilaria Di Biagio, who tells me about the lessons she learned living with nuns who practice monastic silence. Thanks for reading—and here’s to many more years together.
“Confronting the crisis in American Christianity means sitting with the unsettling thought that the gospel might be heard in a church not from the pastor standing in the pulpit and preaching from the Bible but in the shouting of an angry crowd bringing a church service to a screeching halt.”
“Whenever the Episcopalians get around to revising the Book of Common Prayer, I want to make some suggestions regarding Prayer #37—For Prisons and Correctional Institutions.”
