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Entertainment in an Easter Egg Economy
From Taylor Swift to Stranger Things, pop culture fandom now includes sleuthing—for better or worse.
Our top 25 of 2025
Here are the Century articles from last year that enjoyed the most online readers.
The quest for a Black frontier world
Caleb Gayle tells the story of Edward McCabe, who sought to establish a Black state in the American West.
Unrealized potential
It is time for men to embrace our capacity to care for people without applause.
February 8, Epiphany 5A (Matthew 5:13–20)
In those liminal spaces between light’s arrival and its incarnation in the face of my child, I prayed.
A flipped narrative (1 Corinthians 1:18-31)
God’s son wouldn’t be exposed to the heinous death on a cross; he would escape it by using a power given by God.
Feeling our way through climate change
A yearlong conversation between scientists and clergy has helped me rethink the promise of MDiv education.
A heart that spoke and listened
Lerita Coleman Brown’s health journey drew her to the contemplative path. She taught me to listen with my whole self.
A better prayer for prisons
I love the Book of Common Prayer. I have some problems with Prayer #37.
A Judaism primer for Christians
Tzvi Novick walks readers through Jewish practice, interfaith history, and the honest reckoning required for authentic relationship.
The Cities Church protest and Bonhoeffer’s “promising godlessness”
When a pastor is an ICE agent, faithfulness might be found in what looks like its exact opposite—the active disruption of Christian practice.
What we could not see as beautiful
When I told my reading group we’d be looking at one of Brian Staveley’s dark fantasy novels alongside Hans Urs von Balthasar’s theology, they balked.
The Bible is clear: Stay woke
The New Testament authors repeatedly tell their readers to be awake.
A harrowing account of Soviet imprisonment
Alexander Podrabinek’s memoir sheds light on the oppressive underbelly of Leonid Brezhnev’s premiership.
A great library of witnesses
Watching from Bethlehem, feeling helpless as the death toll rose in Gaza, I applied to go far away and do research.
February 1, Epiphany 4A (Matthew 5:1–12)
In life, death, and resurrection, nothing is lost—no one is lost.