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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Survivors hope for justice in the trial of nine men accused of the slaughter of about 150 Christians in Benue state.

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When Parents Pay for a Child’s Violence

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The father of a school shooter was convicted of murder. What is lost and gained by the new precedent?

To Write Well Is Human

Using AI to write is a disordered and deforming means of fulfilling a good desire. The church must offer something better.

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The Bible Doesn’t Justify War Crimes

Old Testament warfare ultimately points us to the Cross, where God’s justice and mercy meet in Christ.

The Rise of the Religious Right

CT called for caution as evangelicals flocked to vote for Ronald Reagan.

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Malcolm Gladwell on Radical Forgiveness and the Death Penalty

What if the justice we rely on to bring closure is actually keeping us from it?

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New Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibit Is the Real Deal

Gordon Govier

After an embarrassing snafu in 2020, the Museum of the Bible celebrates an authentic documents display.‌

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