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The Top Ten Stories Sojourners Published in 2022 Betsy Shirley We love hearing from readers. In emails, tweets, surveys, or the occasional handwritten letter(!), you write things like “finding this article was really helpful in restoring my faith,” as one reader wrote in response to Katherine Pater’s article on Jeremiah 1:5. Other times, you alert us that we, eek, made a zoological error confusing sheep and goats, as one reader noted after reading Jenna Barnett’s humor piece on biblical beards. Sometimes your notes express gratitude; sometimes you think we are “the handmaiden of Satan” (yep, that’s a direct quote). Either way, we read your messages carefully. We also notice when a lot of you — say, tens of thousands of you — read the same article. Our mission is to publish stories that will inform, inspire, and challenge you as much as they’ve informed, inspired, and challenged us; when we see pageviews start to climb, we know we’ve struck a chord. Yet here at Sojourners, we believe following Jesus means being “creatively maladjusted” to the dominant definitions of success; for us as editors, this means resisting the tyranny of fickle algorithms that have so much power in determining which stories get read and which don’t. We love the 10 stories listed below, but each year we publish hundreds of beautiful and important stories, interviews, columns, reflections, reviews, and poems — and darn it, we aren’t gonna let algorithms tell us (or you!) what stories matter most. So below are the 10 articles from 2022 that captured the most pageviews this year. But we also are including 12 articles that you may have missed, as recommended by our editors. We’re proud to publish them all — and grateful for your readership. READ THE FULL ARTICLE Forward Share

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Our Latest Vincent Lloyd’s Dictionary of Black Dignity (by Matthew Vega) In his new book, Vincent W. Lloyd provides vocabulary for the struggle against the world’s systems of domination. What Happened When Joseph Brought Mary Home? (by Amar D. Peterman) A creative imagining of the birth of Christ. Christmas Is Irrational. That’s Kind of the Point (by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson) The creator of the cosmos became fully human; that alone should deconstruct our confidence in systems of rational belief. The Miracle That Popularized Nativity Scenes (by Vanessa Corcoran) Nativities gained popularity thanks to a saint and a miracle.

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From the Magazine New & Noteworthy: Black Psalms, Spiritual Timekeeping, and More (by The Editors) Three culture recommendations from our editors.

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