Heresies, harassment, and Her Majesty’s death: Here are the stories our readers engaged with most this year.
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Jesus didn’t heal with a new cleanse, or fad diet, or fitness regimen.
Instead, his healing went beyond bodily concerns—and served not just individuals, but entire communities.
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In her book “Confronting Jesus,” looks at Jesus as son and king, healer and teacher, servant and sacrifice.
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“Nones” are taking a more prominent place in the pro-life movement.
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Our “listener question” episodes were some of the most popular.
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Productivity hacks and optimized schedules can’t help us live in time rightly.
A new approach for the new year:
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Here’s to new milestones, creative thinking, and other stories of hope.
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“Perhaps one of the most important discipleship endeavors today is reforming our relationship with time,” writes .
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From abortion and climate change to the SBC’s reckoning on abuse, these episodes drew the most attention.
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“Shchedryk” comes out of a history of sorrow, courage, and resistance.
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From laundromat ministries to a multimillion-dollar hit Bible TV show.
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A curse tablet could be the oldest existing example of Hebrew writing by several hundred years.
Gordon Govier rounds up this year’s archaeological finds:
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Stories of secret house churches, broken addictions, and overwhelming grace.
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We wrote about Scottish complementarians who teach women to preach, a Chinese Christian pop star’s song, and Christian views on guns from around the world.
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Character. Morality. Wisdom. Prudence.
These are things that AI can’t teach.
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This year’s most-read conversion stories range from quiet and intimate to dramatic and declarative.
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Our stories this year took us to Sri Lanka and Thailand, Ukraine and the Philippines.
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For his first ministry assignment, he served migrant workers extracting rubber from trees.
Their exploitation convinced him: Social action must accompany evangelism.
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From papyrus in Montana to ivory in Jerusalem and an ancient language’s code, cracked.
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Some of the year’s biggest stories?
Christian nationalism. Abuse. And the rise of nondenominational churches.
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We covered the war in Ukraine and the housing crisis, “spiritual gentrification” and assisted death in Canada.
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Some extraordinary Christians died this year:
Artists, theologians, and leaders who made a difference through their day-in, day-out faithfulness.
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From “Dobbs” to a bombshell SBC abuse report, we ranked the most significant evangelical headlines from 2022:
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Pastoral burnout, deconstruction, and a trailblazing Bible translator.
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“What’s been so encouraging for me has been hearing from listeners who’ve found a sense of inner healing and a sense of confidence again in the church,” says .
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Remembering a Bible smuggler, a speechwriter, a queen, and others.
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“Your greatest ministry often comes out of your greatest misery.”
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The Song of Solomon. Genesis and evolution. And the single evangelical women leaving the church.
Titles we reviewed this year:
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The war in Ukraine. Historic court cases. And civil unrest around the world.
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From refugee resettlement to long COVID patients keeping the faith.
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Liberal theology, Christian celebrity, the Canaanite conquest, and much more from the year in books.
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In memory of the first Christian martyr, churches in the UK serve lunches and hold services and open up as warming shelters.
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Merry Christmas! Here's my conversation with the Rev. about miracles, religious blowhards, liberal blind spots and whether Jesus's message is left or right.
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Two of my stories made 's most-read list, one written hurriedly on a Sunday afternoon while ignoring guests, one labored over for months and months
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“In practice and in history, Christian nationalism seems to go together with white supremacy.”
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“Increasingly as the war grinds on and winter advances, the weaponization of religion will continue.”
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“Four years ago, a little brown boy at church asked his white mom why everyone made Jesus so white and suggested I write a book with a brown Jesus.”
This is the result:
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“We are promised the arrival of the one who enters into our suffering, displacement, and terror not through mere words but as *the Word.*”
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