This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Before I begin, let me tell you that I hate what I am about to do. That’s because few things exasperate me more than the people who Well, actually Christmas songs. True, there was no innkeeper in the gospel Nativity accounts. We don’t know how…
A new movie, “Freud’s Last Session,” imagines a dialogue—and a friendship—between the famed psychologist and C.S. Lewis. Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis both lived in England when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared war on Germany in 1939. Freud had recently left Nazi-controlled Austria with his family and was staying in London. Lewis, then at…
As war disrupts traditional festivities, Palestinian Christians see an opportunity to return to the Nativity story and share the gospel. At Immanuel Evangelical Church in Bethlehem, instead of Christmas lights, senior pastor Nihad Salman rummaged out a banner from the church closet. The banner has a picture of a woman fleeing bomb-shelled buildings, and printed…
Here is the content readers were most engaged with this year. Amid wars, political chaos, and church controversies, Christianity Today’s readers came to our site in 2023 for faithful reflections and trustworthy reporting. In both its topic and reception, our most-read article of the year is a reminder of how God is still at work:…
Our most-read stories from around the world, from Brazil to Cambodia to Germany. Read 20 of Christianity Today’s most popular international stories of 2023. For regions where the church suffered significant disaster or violence, we’ve added additional context from our wider coverage: 20. 19. 18. 17. 16. As the war in Ukraine hit the one-year…
The year brought news of revival and tragedy, with ongoing coverage of denominational divides and allegations of abuse in ministry. This past year may be defined for some evangelicals by the bits of duct tape put over the word United on so many United Methodist Church signs. Or the 152 bullets fired at a Christian…
This year’s favorite print articles chosen by the editorial team. In 2023, we published nearly 100 articles in our nine print issues, including 51 feature-length essays. It’s hard to choose, since they’re all of our favorites, but we attempted to narrow down 10 pieces that we felt everyone should read. Here are our print editors’…
The major biblical archaeology stories of 2023 contain a lot of doom, destruction, and disappointment. They also contain mysteries that may be resolved by future excavations—and perhaps, in one case, the resolution of an ongoing controversy that has dogged New Testament scholars for the past decade. The truly important discoveries of 2023, of course, may…
I picture a clean, sweet Nativity scene. But Jesus chose to come to a dirty, broken world. When I think about the night of Jesus’ birth, the first picture that comes to mind is straight from my childhood. It’s like I’m peering into a snow globe manger scene. Hallmark Channel perfect, it’s clean and serene….
Through Nativity art, the Word takes on flesh across diverse Eastern cultures. Jesus was born in Asia. He was Asian. Yet the preponderance of Christian art that shows him at home in Europe has meant that he is embedded deeply in the popular imagination as Western. The artists in this photo essay bring him back…
