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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Also in this series

10 Favorite Episodes of ‘The Bulletin’ in 2023

CT’s Top 20 Stories from South Asia

Compiled by Surinder Kaur

CT’s Top 13 Stories from the Greater Middle East

CT’s Top Indonesia Stories of 2023

CT’s Top Singapore Stories of 2023

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

CT’s Top 10 News Stories of 2023

Top 10 Chinese Articles Translated into English in 2023

Compiled by Sean Cheng

10 Evangelical Leaders Who Died in 2023

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

CT’s Top Philippines Stories of 2023

Christianity Today’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023

Palestinian men work excavating a Roman cemetery in Gaza City.

Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2023

CT Editors’ Top Print Features of 2023

Christianity Today’s Most-Read Testimonies of 2023

CT’s Stories of 2023 You May Have Missed

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Public Theology Project

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We want meaning and resolution—and the kind of monster we can defeat.

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Japanese animation has become a media mainstay among Gen Z. You may not “get” it, but the zoomers at your church sure do.

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Review

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Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson plays out the dangers of extremism.

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Review

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Haleluya Hadero

In his new Netflix movie, Ruth is a singer, Boaz has an MBA, and the Tennessee wine flows freely.

Stage with lights and a crowd with hands raised. Naomi Raine pictured on screen.

To Black Worship Leaders, Gospel vs. Contemporary Worship Is a False Dichotomy

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

The discussion around Maverick City Music highlights how commercial success and congregational value are two different things.

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Review

Needing Help Is Normal

Agnes R. Howard

Leah Libresco Sargeant’s doggedly pro-life feminist manifesto argues that dependence is inevitable.

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Review

Don’t Give Dan Brown the Final Word on the Council of Nicaea

Bryan Litfin rescues popular audiences from common myths about the origins of Trinitarian doctrine.