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Christianity Today in 2023: Our Top News, Reviews, Podcasts, and More

A year in review of our most read articles and favorite stories.

Christianity Today December 20, 2023

Browse our lists of 2023’s most-read articles, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, testimonies, and more via the collections at right [on desktop] 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: This year, CT Global produced more than 50 articles originally written in Chinese as well as more than 1,150 translations—including these most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Indonesian, Russian, Ukrainian, Korean, and Japanese. (We also expanded our Arabic and began translating into Turkish.)

Also in this series

Our Latest

The Christmas Cloud

Dave Harvey

Christmas feels decidedly unmerry when our emotions don’t align with truth.

Night Skies and Dark Paths

Scott James

God is our unwavering guide through incomprehensible darkness.

The Light of Life

Joni Eareckson Tada’s Advent reflection on this dark-become-light season.

Christmas Tears

Jonah Sage

Christmas reminds us that God took matters into and onto his own hands.

From Limping to Leaping

Jared C. Wilson

A story of cancer, calves, Christmas, and the coming of Christ.

Darkness, Then Light

Ronnie Martin

Introducing Christianity Today’s 2025 Advent devotional.

Let There Be Hope

Chad Bird

God is still at work amidst darkness.

Christmas in Wartime

Daniel Darling

How can Christians possibly pause for Advent in a world so dark?

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