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

Our Latest

A displaced Palestinian boy carries a box of emergency supplies provided by the World Food Programme (WFP) in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza on October 19, 2025.

News

Amid Fragile Cease-Fire, Limited Aid Reaches Gazans

Locals see the price of flour rise and fall as truce is strained and some borders remain closed.

Virginia gubernatorial candidates Abigail Spanberger and Winsome Earle-Sears

News

Federal Job Cuts Hit Home as Virginia Picks Its Next Governor

Meanwhile, the GOP candidate draws from Trump’s playbook to focus on transgender issues in schools.

A glowing butterfly trapped in a jar.

Religious OCD and Me

Scrupulosity latches onto the thing we hold most dear—our relationship with God.

A photo of the actors on stage during the performance.

Why ‘The Screwtape Letters’ Is Uncomfortable to Watch

The two-actor play uses C. S. Lewis’s classic work to warn people—especially Christians—about the dangers of lukewarm faith.

China Graduate School of Theology.

News

Fewer Hong Kong Youth Interested in Seminary

Many feel disillusioned about the church and its lack of engagement amid the turmoil of the past few years.

A photo of Benjamin Watson at mic with the title of the podcast The Just Life overlaid on the image

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Tiffany Loftin: How Everyday People Win Big Change

A conversation about the challenges of sustaining joy while fighting injustice.

A dove symbolizing the Holy Spirit.

Public Theology Project

A Real Revival Is Not Controllable

It implies a movement of the Spirit, not just a boost in numbers.

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