Ideas

The Top 10 Articles in Christianity Today Magazine

Our best reporting, ideas, and theology pieces in print in 2025.

Images from three articles in the list.
Christianity Today December 23, 2025
Illustration by Christianity Today


These days, reading the printed page is a respite from the onslaught of the online news cycle and our social media streams. While all of CT’s print features also appear online, there’s something special about taking a break from a screen to feel the printed page in your hands, to experience words and art together.

Our subscribers, especially those also receiving hard copies, have commented how beautiful, relevant, and enjoyable our recently redesigned print magazine is. That’s not without a whole lot of work! For each edition, our editorial leadership creates an issue schedule, passes out assignments, and works on multiple drafts with authors. Then we collaborate with our design team who lays out the text and  contracts with illustrators to produce what you see on the printed page.

This collaborative work makes the whole process better as image speaks to word and word speaks to image. Together, in each issue, they create a conversation we hope that causes you to pause, wonder, and think anew about the application of Christian faith to culture, ideas, and bear truth to the world around us.

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McKay Coppins on the Hidden Dangers of Online Sports Gambling

McKay Coppins spent one year and $10,000 of The Atlantic’s money to find out the truth about sports betting.

Quashing Political Violence Requires We Tame Our Tongues

The manifesto of the WHCD shooting suspect was biblically superficial and wrong. It was also unsettlingly familiar.

The Bulletin

Trust in Higher Ed, Marijuana Status, NFL Draft, and West Bank Violence

Public confidence in universities, medical marijuana risk, NFL draft picks, and understanding the Israeli settler movement.

Review

God Didn’t Make a Zero-Sum World

Ian Shapiro argues that democracy depends on spreading the wealth. But Christians are equipped to live in love, not fear.

Excerpt

Competence Is Deeper Than Confidence

David Thomas

An excerpt from Capable: How to Teach Your Kids the Strengths, Skills, and Strategies to Build Resilience.

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