CT’s 2022 Cover Stories, Ranked

In case you missed them, here are our most-read print cover stories.

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Christianity Today’s print magazine cover stories focused on many of the evangelical conversations that happened in 2022: pastoral burnout, deconstruction, and the war in Ukraine. We also focused on telling people’s stories: from U2 star Bono to a little-known but trailblazing Bible translator. Here are CT’s cover stories ranked in reverse order of popularity online.

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4. March

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2. December

1. January/February

Check out the rest of our 2022 year-end lists here.

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