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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A photo of Benjamin Watson at mic with the title of the podcast The Just Life overlaid on the image

The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Ruth Malhotra: The Woman Who Told The Truth About Ravi Zacharias

The harrowing story of whistleblowing from the inside.

Federal law enforcement confronts protestors in Minnesota.

Public Theology Project

What Happens When You Look Away from the Minneapolis Shootings

Ask not what will happen to your country—although that’s of grave importance. Ask what will happen to you.

Federal agents stand in tear gas and face protesters on Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis on January 24, 2026.

I Trained to Monitor ICE but Found Myself Feeding the Hungry

Elizabeth Berget

Here in Minneapolis, our immigrant neighbors are scared. Local churches like mine are working to meet their needs.

People from the nonprofit organization, AVAAZ, light candles in Belgium beside teddy bears for Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped.

News

An ‘Underground Railroad’ to Rescue Abducted Ukrainian Kids

Russia has taken tens of thousands of children, who end up in reeducation facilities, military schools, or illegal adoptions.

A black man and woman praying.

Young Christians Can Stay in the Black Church

Michael Lyles II

A legalistic congregation and my own spiritual immaturity made me sour on church. But God and another congregation drew me back.

Three people in a deep conversation.

How to Witness Well in Post-Christian America

Darrell Bock

We must engage the truth of the gospel with relationship and respect.

The Russell Moore Show

Beth Moore on Walking with God

Why walk with God when answers don’t come quickly—and sometimes don’t come at all?

Women in recovery in the women's ward at Karanda Mission Hospital in Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe.

News

Zimbabwe Christians Push Back Against Proposed Abortion Legalization

Emmanuel Nwachukwu

One woman warned the senate of a “silent aftermath they will never legislate away.”