CT Editors’ Top Print Features of 2023

This year’s favorite print articles chosen by the editorial team.

Christianity Today December 20, 2023

In 2023, we published nearly 100 articles in our nine print issues, including 51 feature-length essays. It’s hard to choose, since they’re all of our favorites, but we attempted to narrow down 10 pieces that we felt everyone should read. Here are our print editors’ feature picks for 2023:

Check out the rest of our 2023 year-end lists here.

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