The Most Read Print Features of 2021
Gabriel Ramos
#1
Sweetness Follows
By Sara Billups
[The music] was an escape from our midwestern cultural and spiritual orphaning. We were escape artists while listening. We were not wearing dance squad ribbons and high ponytails. We were not driving to the basketball game to perform “Eye of the Tiger” on the high gloss floor. I was riding shotgun, and we were Indiana happy-sad, and nobody needed to say anything.
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#2
On Unnecessarily
Owning Art
By Karen Stiller
In two churches now, [we have] formed committees, talked together about artful things and then created gallery space. Church walls which stood in entrance lobbies, normally hung with evacuation directions and fire extinguishers or else nothing at all, are now gallery walls. They have become actual, legitimate gallery space inside church buildings where artists of faith can show their work.
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Marina Elise
Philipp Pilz
#3
The Bursting
Book of God
By Preston Pouteaux
This world is ancient, storied, discoverable and a stunning mystery to me. Instead of coddling a position that separates inquisitive wonder from Christian faith, I am learning to ask all the more in the presence of God. I have found great peace here. Walking with God into God’s world, and into my neighborhood, to ask in wonder about the beauty I see is where I find life, and have come to Life.
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#4
Buttered Transcendence
By Nathan Beacom
So it was, sitting among good friends around the table in Dante’s city that I was granted a vision, like Moses, of the Holy Land flowing with things to eat and drink. This milk and this honey were no mere earthly sustenance, but a delight both terrestrial and eternal, and the wine we drank was the new wine of contemplation, whereby human beings look at things with the eyes of God.
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Davide Gazzotti
#5
Education for an
Eternal Kingdom
By Doug Sikkema
Was Aeneas a good man? Do we see ourselves in him? While there is much that is admirable in Aeneas, he must be turned inside out first. We, as natural born children of the City of Man, must also be turned around, converted, transformed. We must be set on another way. And that is what Christ came to do, to turn Roma inside out and show the way of Amor, of love.