Most-Read Articles of 2025

15. The Workism Trap by Bobby Jamieson
No, your career is not your path to fulfillment.

14. Six Ways to Resist the Machine by Paul Kingsnorth
The technological mindset is corrupting our souls. It’s time to fight.

13. Six New Poems by Wendell Berry
The great American writer addresses the thinning partition between this life and eternity.

12. The Freedom to Read by Charlie Tyson
What is driving the decline of reading? It may not be what you think.

11. Stanley Hauerwas’s Provocations by Tish Harrison Warren
America’s theologian isn’t worried about the death of cultural Christianity.

10. Kierkegaard’s Attack on Cultural Christianity by Daniel Goodman
Those who champion Christianity for its moral values, aesthetic appeal, psychological benefits, and civilizing influence are nothing but swindlers.

9. The Beauty of Dissonance by Jay Nordlinger
Music has a variety of jobs to do, as the other arts do. It can calm, soothe, and delight. It can also provoke, disturb, bite.

8. The Politics of Pagan Christianity by James R. Wood
Today’s nationalist Christians should heed the message of the anti-Nazi theologian Henri de Lubac.

7. The Improbable Revival of the Cloister by Shira Telushkin
Why are so many young Catholic women choosing radical seclusion as cloistered nuns?

6. Passing On the Farm to My Daughter by James Rebanks
A record-breaking bull showed that my seventeen-year-old is ready to start taking my place.

5. The Return of the Family Doctor by Brewer Eberly
The direct primary care model aims to put relationships over profit.

4. Against Re-Enchantment by Joy Marie Clarkson
Secularism has robbed the world of gods and goblins, we are told. Is that a bad thing?

3. The Absolute Absurdity of a Christian Nation by Jason G. Edwards
What would it look like if a country made Jesus’ teachings its constitution?

2. In Defense of Pint and Pipe by Malcolm Guite
Smoking and drinking carry known risks. Here’s why I haven’t given them up.

1. Against Self-Optimization by David Zahl
The wellness industry sells you a version of yourself it can’t deliver. Hope lies elsewhere.