Christianity Today in 2021: Our Top News, Reviews, Podcasts, and More

CT published 2,063 articles this year. Here’s what readers and editors liked most.

Browse our lists of 2021’s top articles, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, testimonies, and more via the collections at right [on desktops] or below [on mobile]. You can also read this year’s Top 10 discoveries in biblical archaeology, along with our most-read stories of the global church.

For our bilingual readers: CT Global produced 800 translations this year, including these most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Indonesian, Korean, and Russian.

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