Editor’s Picks Archives

A list of our favorite things from 2018.

Our staff debates about what reflected the good, the true, and the beautiful in 2018 and narrows it down to an unranked list of the Top 25.

The most-read article list is a check of our readership’s pulse, so to speak.

If we’re not willing to give of ourselves for the communities in which God has placed us, what will be the cost of the absence of our virtue?

Our writers share how traditions shape their Christmas celebrations.

By playing to the canon in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, while at once forging their own trail, the Coens manage to both nod to and question the orthodoxy of what we’ve been told about the grand ‘ole world of outlaws and guns and rickety wagons.

Watching a show like Kim’s Convenience is a helpful exercise for anyone in the dominant culture to experience the decentering of whiteness and the elevation of stories from the margins.

More often than not, information alone doesn’t change one’s mind. Stories do.

We’re all beautiful, horrible people, and with both of these realities in mind we can ask, “What’s the joke?”

Why do we do the things we do, and what end do our lives serve?

Courageous artists remind us that earthly beauty is always damaged.

What is the corrosive, and addictive, nature of power? And how does one learn to wield it well?

Movies like 9 to 5 belie Justice Kavanaugh’s notion that men of the ’80s had no choice but to conform to the patterns of the era’s most boorish comedies.

I did not choose to become a parent so much as I was made a parent by forces larger and greater than I could ever fathom or control.

Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give reminds us to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God.

Thanos is a maniac in the sense used by G. K. Chesterton in his classic work Orthodoxy.