Christianity Today in 2022: Our Top News, Reviews, Podcasts, and More

A year in review of our most popular articles and favorite stories.

Browse our lists of 2022’s top articles, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, testimonies, and more via the collections at right [on desktops] or below [on mobile]. You can also read this year’s Top 10 discoveries in biblical archaeology, along with our most-read stories of the global church.

For our bilingual readers: CT Global produced over 1,100 translations this year, including these most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Indonesian, Korean, and Russian. (We also began translating into Ukrainian and Japanese.)

Church Law & Tax also ranked their top stories here.

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Our Latest

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The Russell Moore Show

Jon Meacham on the Pursuit of a More Perfect Union

The American experiment has never been about achieving perfection.

An image of Jimmy Carter and a magazine cover from the CT archives.

A Sign, Not a Weathervane

Daniel Silliman

CT sought to point people to the Bible through the personal and public crises of 1978.

Images of the Gidenko family and war-torn Ukraine.

News

War Drove Her Out. Now She’s Planting a Church.

Cody Benjamin

Displaced from Ukraine, a young immigrant found safety—and mission—in small-town Minnesota.

A young child on a phone.

Low-Tech Parenting Must Be a Big Tent

If we want to parent wisely in a digital age, we must pair courage with grace—not judgmentalism.

Bethel University in Minnesota.

Friction-Maxxing Higher Ed

Kristin VanEyk and Elisabeth E. Lefebvre

Christian colleges can offer complexity and real challenges instead of pat answers and easy degrees.

A swirling vortex of pills.

‘No Guardrails’ for Some Christian Wellness Influencers

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

Supplements and other wellness products do big business on social media, and even Scripture can be turned into marketing language.

A man standing alone in a classroom.

The Bulletin

War Projections, 2028 Hopefuls, AI Novels, and Men’s College Attendance

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Trump predicts end of war, presidential candidates emerge, publisher detects AI-generated novel, and men think twice about college.

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Review

We Aren’t Just Disenchanted. We Are Desecrated.

Danielle Treweek

Carl Trueman’s latest work tackles Western society’s theological ailments—but could offer a stronger Christian remedy.