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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Also in this series

10 Favorite Episodes of ‘The Bulletin’ in 2023

CT’s Top 20 Stories from South Asia

Compiled by Surinder Kaur

CT’s Top 13 Stories from the Greater Middle East

CT’s Top Indonesia Stories of 2023

CT’s Top Singapore Stories of 2023

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

CT’s Top 10 News Stories of 2023

Top 10 Chinese Articles Translated into English in 2023

Compiled by Sean Cheng

10 Evangelical Leaders Who Died in 2023

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

CT’s Top Philippines Stories of 2023

Christianity Today’s 10 Most-Read Stories of 2023

Palestinian men work excavating a Roman cemetery in Gaza City.

Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2023

CT Editors’ Top Print Features of 2023

Christianity Today’s Most-Read Testimonies of 2023

CT’s Stories of 2023 You May Have Missed

Our Latest

Black woman behind a ripped blue paper

The Black Women Missing from Our Pews

America’s most churched demographic is slipping from religious life. We must go after them.

A foggy image of a deer and trees.

The Still Small Voice in the Deer Stand

Brian Reisinger

Since childhood, each hunting season out in God’s creation has healed wounds and deepened my faith.

Rend Collective standing with instruments in the forest

Play Those Chocolate Sprinkles, Rend Collective!

Haley Byrd Wilt

The Irish band’s new album “FOLK!” proclaims joy after suffering.

Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Capital Management, arrives at federal court in New York, US, on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024. He is a grey-haired man wearing thick glasses and a suit with a purple tie.

News

Wall Street’s Most Famous Evangelical Sentenced in Unprecedented Fraud Case

Judge gives former billionaire Bill Hwang 18 years in prison for crimes that outweigh his “lifetime” of “charitable works.”

A skeleton holding hands with a man

Public Theology Project

How a Dark Sense of Humor Can Save You from Cynicism

A bit of gallows humor can remind us that death does not have the final word.

Rina Seixas

News

Died: Rina Seixas, Iconic Surfer Pastor Who Faced Domestic Violence Charges

Franco Iacomini

The Brazilian founder of Bola de Neve Church, which attracted celebrities and catalyzed 500 congregations on six continents, faced accusations from family members and a former colleague.

Laura Ingalls Wilder in front of coverd wagons and a church door

Review

The Quiet Faith Behind Little House on the Prairie

Monika B. Hilder

How a sincere but reserved Christianity influenced the life and literature of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

A still from the movie depicting Bonhoeffer sitting and thinking at his desk.

‘Bonhoeffer’ Bears Little Resemblance to Reality

The new biopic from Angel Studios twists the theologian’s life and thought to make a political point.