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

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

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.)

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CT’s Top 20 Stories from South Asia

Compiled by Surinder Kaur

CT’s Top 13 Stories from the Greater Middle East

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CT’s Top Indonesia Stories of 2023

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CT’s Top Singapore Stories of 2023

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Christianity Today’s 15 Most-Read Book Reviews of 2023

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CT’s Top 10 News Stories of 2023

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Top 10 Chinese Articles Translated into English in 2023

Compiled by Sean Cheng

10 Evangelical Leaders Who Died in 2023

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The Global Church in 2023: CT’s Top 20 International Stories

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CT’s Top Philippines Stories of 2023

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Christianity Today’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023

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Palestinian men work excavating a Roman cemetery in Gaza City.

Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2023

Gordon Govier

CT Editors’ Top Print Features of 2023

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Christianity Today’s Most-Read Testimonies of 2023

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CT’s Stories of 2023 You May Have Missed

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Our Latest

An image of MLK

A Time of Moral Indignation

Daniel Silliman

CT reports on civil rights, the “death of God” theology, and an escalating conflict in Vietnam.

Three book covers.

A Heartwarming Book on Sin

Three books on theology to read this month.

Photos of Mike Cosper and Representative Adam Kinzinger.

The Bulletin

Brown University Shooting and The Last Republican

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Violence at Brown, and former Rep. Adam Kinzinger talks about Jan 6, courage, and global affairs.

A burned church building in Mangu, Nigeria on February 2, 2024, following weeks of violence and unrest in the Plateau State.

News

Amid Fear of Attacks, Many Nigerians Mute Christmas

Emmanuel Nwachukwu

One pastor has canceled celebrations and will only reveal the location of the Christmas service last-minute.

A picture of a dove flying in light.

Come, Thou Long-Expected Spirit

W. David O. Taylor

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity often missing from our Christmas carols?

Analysis

Bondi Beach Shooting Compels Christians to Stand with Jews

The Bulletin with Josh Stanton and Robert Stearns

Jewish-Christian friendships offer solace and solidarity after antisemitic violence.

Two men sit at a table in what remains of their devastated Beirut apartment in 1984 during Lebanon's civil war.

Who Writes History When There Is No Winner?

Lebanon’s civil war is a taboo subject. A group of Christians and Muslims is broaching it.

Brandon Engman as Young David in Angel Studio’s David.

Review

Review: Angel Studios’ ‘David’

Peter T. Chattaway

Artistically, it’s ambitious. Narratively, it works. But it’s no “The Prince of Egypt.”