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New today from the Century: Flea-market capitalists, gun control, clergy burnout, more.

New today from the Century: Beth Felker Jones on The Hobbit, John Buchanan on Dave Brubeck, more.

New today from the Century: Mark Heim on Brian McLaren, Rodney Clapp on technology and prayer, more.

New today from the Century: Zionism's internal conflicts, Brueggemann reviews Douglas John Hall, more.

New today from the Century: Bill McKibben on divesting from oil, Kyle Childress on protesters in the pews, more.

Here are the Century's most-viewed blog posts of the year. Thanks for reading.

President Obama’s speech in Newtown on December 17 included this pivotal question: “Are we prepared to say that such violence visited on our children year after year after year is somehow the price of our freedom?” The president is bristling here at the way our political discourse reflexively leaps to claims about individual rights and freedoms.

Here's a separate top-12 list of just our paid content—i.e., the most popular articles of the year that were read online only by Century subscribers.

Here are the Century magazine articles that were most popular online this year. Thanks for reading.

New today from the Century: Peter Marty on Christmas unvarnished, Carol Howard Merritt on Sandy Hook and public theology, more.

I was visiting friends in Ft. Wayne recently when a popular song came on the radio. I learned the lyrics from Chicago-based stations, so I was a bit shocked when Hot 107.9 censored “sex” out of the song’s hook.

New today from the Century: The editors on gun control, John Buchanan on the Magi, more.

New today from the Century: Crude religious characters on subtle TV shows, Max Lucado's moral views on guns, more.

My family celebrates Christmas with a mix of Jesus and Santa Claus. But there is one story we don't tell.

New today from the Century: God's place in a world explained by science; the CT shooting, school prayer and the religious right's god; more.

New today from the Century: Fighting for change after Newtown, the dark night of the church, more.

New today from the Century: Dark night of the church, open theology and the Bible, more.