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Our 10 most-read articles of 2022
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
Our 10 most-read articles of 2022
Happy new year! Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
Reading the Bible with Love Sechrest
In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.
Monday night meal plan
My church offered college students weekly fellowship.
It turns out they needed the food, too.
The prophetic church in Ortega’s Nicaragua
One alarming aspect of the onetime revolutionary leader’s authoritarian turn has been the persecution of religious leaders.
Our living waters are struggling to breathe
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
Why am I so drawn to these evangelical couple vloggers?
They’re selling marriage as a promise and a return on investment. It’s both misguided and genuinely appealing.
The Magi’s interfaith encounter (Matthew 2:1-12)
And six stars they offer for our own
The great and strange John Donne
Katherine Rundell’s biography offers something new: she matches the poet’s energy with her own.
Delores Williams’s voice in the wilderness
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.
January 8, Baptism of the Lord A (Matthew 3:13-17)
Even Jesus is unable to escape the consequences of sin, becoming a victim of human violence.
Church vs. injustice, not church vs. state
Ilsup Ahn believes that a different conception of church could have stopped, among other things, housing segregation.
Matthew writes a sequel (Matthew 2:13-23)
For which he needs to invent some prophecy
January 6, Epiphany of the Lord A (Matthew 2:1-12)
It must have been a strange sight: grown adults, prostrate before a toddler.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.