Christianity Today in 2020: Our Top News, Reviews, Podcasts, and More

CT published 1,650 articles this year. Here’s what readers and editors liked most.

Browse our lists of 2020’s top articles, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, and testimonies—as well as CT’s top stories about the global church, good news, pastors, COVID-19, and more—via the collections at right [on desktops] or below [on mobile].

Also for our bilingual readers, from CT Global’s 350 translations this year, see our most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Indonesian, Korean, and Catalan.

Finally, a report on this year’s Top 10 discoveries in biblical archaeology.

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A man cutting a cancel symbol instead of a turkey.

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Hands holding up music notes.

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Pictures of the founders of Greek life organizations.

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An image of some Epstein files.

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