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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A song book made from paper pieces of different Christmas carols.

Excerpt

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Proper’ Christmas Carol

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

A baby hand in hay

Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.

An abstract advent wreath and candles

Advent Doesn’t Have to Make Sense

Christian Gonzalez Ho

As a curator, I love how contemporary art makes the world feel strange. So does the story of Jesus’ birth.

Mary sitting at Jesus' feet at her house

Glory to God in the Highest Calling

Sandra Glahn and Seana Scott

Motherhood is honorable, but being a disciple of Jesus is every woman’s primary biblical vocation.

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Una solución para el agobio de la temporada navideña

The three wise men looking at the star of Bethlehem

Public Theology Project

The Star of Bethlehem Is a Zodiac Killer

How Christmas upends everything that draws our culture to astrology.

The tower at the entrance to Pepperdine University glows red-orange as vegetation around it burns in the night.

News

As Malibu Burns, Pepperdine Withstands the Fire

University president praises the community’s “calm resilience” as students and staff shelter in place in fireproof buildings.