Christianity Today in 2023: Our Top News, Reviews, Podcasts, and More

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

Browse our lists of 2023’s most-read articles, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, testimonies, and more via the collections at right [on desktop] 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: This year, CT Global produced more than 50 articles originally written in Chinese as well as more than 1,150 translations—including these most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, and Japanese. (We also expanded our Arabic and began translating into Turkish.)

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10 Favorite Episodes of ‘The Bulletin’ in 2023

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CT’s Top 20 Stories from South Asia

Compiled by Surinder Kaur

CT’s Top 13 Stories from the Greater Middle East

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CT’s Top Indonesia Stories of 2023

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CT’s Top Singapore Stories of 2023

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Christianity Today’s 15 Most-Read Book Reviews of 2023

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CT’s Top 10 News Stories of 2023

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Top 10 Chinese Articles Translated into English in 2023

Compiled by Sean Cheng

10 Evangelical Leaders Who Died in 2023

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The Global Church in 2023: CT’s Top 20 International Stories

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CT’s Top Philippines Stories of 2023

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Christianity Today’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023

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Palestinian men work excavating a Roman cemetery in Gaza City.

Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2023

Gordon Govier

CT Editors’ Top Print Features of 2023

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Christianity Today’s Most-Read Testimonies of 2023

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CT’s Stories of 2023 You May Have Missed

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Analysis

Republicans and Democrats Clash on Epstein File Release

The Bulletin with Nicole Martin

The newest documents remind Christians to support sexual abuse victims.

An image of JFK and a 1960 cover of CT Magazine.

Evangelicals Confront a Revolutionary Age

Daniel Silliman

A Catholic on the campaign trail and the “possibly catastrophic character of what is happening under our eyes” caused deep concern in 1960.

A screenshot from video footage of the bus attack.

News

Hindu Nationalists Attack Missionaries in Northern India

Divya Chirayath

One victim describes the mob descending on their bus, a rare occurrence in Muslim-majority Jammu and Kashmir.

The Cathedral Of Echmiadzin, headquarters of the Armenian Orthodox Church in Yerevan, Armenia.

News

Armenia Holds Inaugural Prayer Breakfast Amid Church Arrests

Some see the crackdown as persecution, others challenge the national church’s ties to Russia.

Nicholas Cage in The Carpenter's Son.

Review

A New Jesus Horror Movie Wallows In Affliction

Peter T. Chattaway

“The Carpenter’s Son,” starring Nicolas Cage, is disconnected from biblical hope.

Three adults looking up, overwhelmed at many documents falling from the sky.

The Bulletin

Israeli Settler Violence, Epstein Emails, and BrinGing Back Purity

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

West Bank skirmishes, Congress releases Epstein documents mentioning Trump, and Gen Z reconsiders purity culture.

Senior Pastor Mingri “Ezra” Jin preaching at Beijing Zion Church on September 3, 2018

News

Christians from 45 Countries Call for Zion Church Pastor’s Release

Angela Lu Fulton

Meanwhile in China, the house church continues to gather and baptize new believers.

People praying in church.

News

Kenyan Clergy Oppose Bill Aimed at Regulating Churches

Moses Wasamu

Pastors say the proposed law could harm religious freedoms.