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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CT’s Top 20 Stories of 2021

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Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021

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Angela Stanton King: Mothers, Babies and The Measure of Justice

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People gather around the memorial space during a Charlie Kirk vigil at Burlington Commons on September 17, 2025 in Burlington, Kentucky.

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For Kirk’s Fans, Provocation Wasn’t the Point

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