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The Bulletin’s Favorite Conversations of 2024

In a tempest-tossed political and cultural season, these episodes anchored us.

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In 2024, The BulletinChristianity Today’s flagship news podcast—hosted thought-provoking conversations with dynamic guests. Each episode explores the people, events, and issues shaping our world, with an eye to how Christians can respond with wise and measured discourse. These conversations on headlining topics feature engaging discussion, incisive analysis, and gospel-grounded hope in a polarized season.

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Christianity Today in 2024

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

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Browse our lists of 2024’s big stories, book reviews, podcasts, obituaries, testimonies, and more. You can also read this year’s top ten discoveries in biblical archaeology, along with our most read stories of the global church.

This year, CT Global also produced more than 5,000 translations—including these most-read articles in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Arabic, Russian, Korean, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)—and expanded our non-English newsletter offerings to our readers around the globe.

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20 Stories About a Vibrant Global Church

Mennonites thriving in Paraguay, architecturally stunning church buildings in China, and persistent faith amid Haiti’s pervasive gang violence.

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Earlier this year, videos of Fijian rugby players singing hymns from the Olympic Village in Paris began to circulate on social media. As their voices traveled through the commune, curious athletes took out their phones and shared the music and its messages with the rest of the world. 

These enchanting expressions of faith prompted a CT story (you’ll find a link below) and also a reminder of the myriad ways the global body of Christ seeks to make him known. For some, it’s through opening a school for special-needs members in their community or helping spread a political vision and infrastructure to Christians in another country. For others, it’s teaching breathing exercises to traumatized refugees or trying to seek church unity with fellow believing citizens. 

For all of us, however, these stories are opportunities to reflect on what it means to live out our faith. What does that look like in the Pacific? 

“When I would walk through the village in the mornings or evenings, I would hear singing coming from the homes,” said Jerusha Matsen Neal, who spent three years on the Fijian island of Viti Levu. “You’d hear singing in four-part harmony, with children.”

Thank you for reading stories by Christianity Today’s global team in 2024. We regularly translate our work into more than half a dozen languages. Learn more here.

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Christianity Today’s 10 Most Read Asia Stories of 2024

Tightening restrictions on Indian Christians, the testimony of a president’s daughter, and thoughts on when pastors should retire.

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Sixty percent of the world population lives in Asia, including a growing and active Christian community. This year, the top ten Asia stories on CT’s website focused on India, China, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Read these stories (arranged with the most-read story first) below:

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13 Stories from the Greater Middle East and Africa From 2024

Covering tragedy, controversy, and culinary signs of hope, here is a chronological survey of Christian news from the region.

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Selected by CT editors, below is our coverage of significant developments and cultural challenges for Christians in the Greater Middle East and Africa, arranged in chronological order of publication:

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CT’s Best Ideas of 2024

A selection of 15 of our most intriguing, delightful, and thought-provoking articles on theology, politics, culture, and more.

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For many writers, putting hundreds or thousands of words on the page is not the most difficult part of writing. It is rather the ideation phase, the task of coming up with what we call the pitch, the angle, or the take and then determining whether the idea we’ve gotten is worth anything: if it holds together, if it tells the truth, if it might possibly edify the church.

On some blessed occasions, the idea may simply appear, like Gabriel to Mary, an unlooked-for mental gift. Perhaps more often, ideation can be a slog. It recalls less the first chapter of Luke than that of Ecclesiastes: “Is there anything of which one can say, ‘Look! This is something new’?” (v. 10)

However they came about, the 15 articles below (presented in order of publication), are ideas-driven pieces that stuck with CT editors this year. They present fresh insights alongside timeless truths and bring surprising perspectives to both familiar and novel debates. We hope you find them as intriguing, delightful, and thought-provoking as we did.

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Big CT Stories of 2024

Ten of our most-read articles this year.

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How do you sum up an entire year? Here at CT, we’re taking a stab at it by revisiting our most-read pieces from 2024.

Readership, of course, is only one measure of an article’s import, success, and value. If you browse our other end-of-year listicles, you’ll find we’re also curating stories by genre (like book reviews), medium (like essays from our print magazine), topic (like archeological discoveries, a perennial favorite), location (like stories from Asia and Latin America), and other criteria.

But readership is telling, too, particularly when the readers in question are those of Christianity Today: Our most-trafficked articles each year offer a snapshot of the interests, hopes, and fears of evangelicals in America and around the world. Below, presented in order of publication, find ten of our most-read articles of 2024. 

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CT’s Most Memorable Print Pieces from 2024

We hope these articles will delight you anew—whether you thumb through your stack of CT print magazines or revisit each online.

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There’s something unmistakable about cracking open the spine of a new book or getting a whiff of that library-stack smell. Sitting with printed words invites readers to slow down—to savor and delight in ideas, reporting, arguments, and well-wrought turns of phrase. While digital information snowballs, the printed page invites us into a curated conversation through both content and form.

In our print pieces at Christianity Today, we’re always on the lookout for fantastic writing that is full of rich theological content, in-depth reporting, and carefully argued ideas—all in service to Christ and his kingdom.

The 10 pieces below (presented in order of publication) are ones our editors labored over and lingered over. We hope these articles will delight you anew—whether you thumb through your stack of CT print magazines or revisit each online.

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Christianity Today Stories You May Have Missed in 2024

From an elder in space to reflections on doubt, friendship, and miscarriage.

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Some of the stories we publish at Christianity Today are “clicky.” They’re news reports about well-known people or organizations. They’re opinion pieces with provocative titles. They’re movie reviews of the year’s biggest films.

But some of our most compelling, important, and inspiring stories are not clicky. They are reported from lesser-known places—lesser-known, at least, for a segment of our Western audience. They make nuanced arguments that aren’t easily captured in headlines. They have wonderful details and sharp sentences. But you won’t know that until after you click.

Here are 15 of those kinds of stories from this year. You’ll find Kenyan Christians eating fish and playing hymns and learning Chinese to evangelize their neighbors. You’ll learn about the ministries trying to stop exploitative cyberscamming around the world. You’ll be encouraged by an important birthday call from the International Space Station.

You’ll read reflections on doubt and scarcity and fracture and repair. And you’ll encounter some of those sharp sentences. Some of my favorites, from the final essay on this list: “I reached for my Bible and ran my fingers over the puckered pages. To whom else could I go? The Lord has the words of eternal life, and I’m a complete sucker for him.”

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Praise and Persecution: 15 stories of Latin America in 2024

News about Christian music and the difficult relationship between some governments and the church were covered in CT’s most-read articles about the continent.

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What is it like to live in a country where celebrations like Christmas and Holy Week have been abolished by law?

This is the reality in Uruguay, a nation of 10 million people, often regarded as the most secularized country in the Americas. Just north of Uruguay, Brazil offers a contrasting landscape—evangelicals are on the rise, and Christian music ranks among the most-streamed genres on digital platforms.  

Contrasts and inequalities define Latin America, a theme reflected in this selection of 15 of the most-read reports about the region published by CT over the year.

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