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Christianity Today Stories You May Have Missed in 2024

From an elder in space to reflections on doubt, friendship, and miscarriage.

Top stories you missed featuring a man passing out hymnals, a woman in front of Chinatown, and an astronaut
Christianity Today December 20, 2024
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Some of the stories we publish at Christianity Today are “clicky.” They’re news reports about well-known people or organizations. They’re opinion pieces with provocative titles. They’re movie reviews of the year’s biggest films.

But some of our most compelling, important, and inspiring stories are not clicky. They are reported from lesser-known places—lesser-known, at least, for a segment of our Western audience. They make nuanced arguments that aren’t easily captured in headlines. They have wonderful details and sharp sentences. But you won’t know that until after you click.

Here are 15 of those kinds of stories from this year. You’ll find Kenyan Christians eating fish and playing hymns and learning Chinese to evangelize their neighbors. You’ll learn about the ministries trying to stop exploitative cyberscamming around the world. You’ll be encouraged by an important birthday call from the International Space Station.

You’ll read reflections on doubt and scarcity and fracture and repair. And you’ll encounter some of those sharp sentences. Some of my favorites, from the final essay on this list: “I reached for my Bible and ran my fingers over the puckered pages. To whom else could I go? The Lord has the words of eternal life, and I’m a complete sucker for him.”

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