The Most Read Digital Features of 2021
Luis Delgado
#1
A Regime of
Small Kindnesses
By Jen Pollock Michel
I still own my trade paperback copy of Marilyn Robinson’s 1980 novel Housekeeping, which I read during my third year of university. There are no markings on the pages from that first reading. I suspect it made no real impression. Looking back, I can see that the time was inopportune, that I was in-between losses.
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#2
Whoever You Are,
No Matter How Lonely
By Elizabeth Richards
Yet I can only push forward into the day, and fight against the soft freezing power of life on my heart, knowing that the world still offers itself to my imagination. It teaches me how to place myself in a greater narrative and experience heavy emotions in relation to others. It teaches me to rejoice in geese reflected in puddles, and the watercolor trees of Autumn.
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Esther Choi
Luke Stackpoole
#3
The End Which is
Really the Beginning
By David Russell Mosley
Christ’s coming turns Time’s scythe into a pruning knife, helping us to grow
on the vine that is Christ. And so we are also reminded in this conjunction that Saturn makes way for Jupiter. Saturn may come last of the planets in medieval cosmology, but it does not have the final say.
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#4
Grace at Mount Doom
By Ryan Diaz
To look at Frodo and see ourselves is to see ourselves clearly, creatures in need of rescue and divine aid. God is not absent. He is with us in the crags of decision and in the fires of temptation, and though we seem to do all to thwart His purposes, He is graciously seeing them to their end.
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Philipp Pilz
Teresa Freitas
#5
Perfect Garments
in New York
By Sarah Finley Purdy
What was murky started to become clear: there were multifaceted implications
of clothing in my day-to-day life, both in the way God had designed them to function and the way in which I, in my humanity, had warped that design.