This last year was a big one for this little website.

Envisioned as a place where I could bring together content published with various publications to share with those interested, KenChitwood.com has become a hub for news, analysis and commentary on global religion and culture.

This year, it felt particularly global. The site enjoyed over 43,000 page views and 41,000 unique visitors from the United States, Germany, Canada, China, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, India, Australia, Russia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Morocco, Brazil, France, South Africa and elsewhere around the world.

Beyond readership, assignments and research this year took me from Tbilisi to London, Birmingham to Berlin, Los Angeles to Houston, Poland to Armenia.

Working as a columnist at Interfaith America and Patheos, Europe Correspondent for Christianity Today, journalist fellow with the Fetzer Institute, Editor for ReligionLink and continuing my postdoctoral research at Universität Bayreuth, I wrote about immigration and interreligious peace projects, politics and marginalization, natural disasters and a garden that just might help heal the world.

I could not do it without you, the reader.

That’s why I crunch the numbers at the end of each year to see what stories resonated with you most.

Along the way, some stories caught your attention more than others. You clicked on and read through reflections on the death of Charlie Kirk, the chaos and confusion of massive cuts to federal foreign aid, the destruction—and rebuilding—of Los Angeles after devastating fires and on whether or not artificial intelligence can “get” religion. We marked the founding of new religious monuments and the passing of major religious figures.

Thank you (once more) for reading along this way year. I am already working on stories for 2026 and I look forward to sharing them with you all.