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Check out Christian Chronicle journalists’ favorite stories of 2025
Dozens of religion writers — for faith-based and secular publications — make their picks.
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Besides serving as editor-in-chief of The Christian Chronicle, I write a Friday column for Religion Unplugged.
For the past six years, I’ve enjoyed asking some of the nation’s top religion journalists to share their favorite or most important story from the previous 12 months.
More than 60 of my Godbeat friends — representing a wide variety of secular and faith-based publications — responded to my 2025 survey.
In case you’re curious, here are the picks made by Chronicle journalists:
Elvis Rangel and his children, Hannah and Isaías, share their experience of emigrating from Venezuela only to lose their status and begin searching again for a safe home.
• Cheryl Mann Bacon: Venezuelan family waits, prays and fights its fear, from Abilene, Texas, published April 17.
A Forever His camper arrives at the Karns Church of Christ with his family.
• Calvin Cockrell: A camp where everyone belongs, from Knoxville, Tenn., published Sept. 30.
Jack Evans Jr. preaches to the gathering of Christians.
• Hamil R. Harris: Crusade for Christ a blessing in person and online, published Aug. 20.
• B.T. Irwin: Lorraine Smith has hand-written cards for almost 7,000 new Christians in two years, aired May 14.
Listen to all of B.T.’s podcasts.
Students watch a boy outside of the Professor Humberto González School Center gate in San Salvador, El Salvador.
• Audrey Jackson: In the land of ‘The Savior,’ Bibles are welcomed, from San Salvador, El Salvador, published July 16.
Not Your Average Joe is a nonprofit organization that offers customer-facing meaningful employment for people with disabilities.
• Kenzie James: More than ‘the least of these,’ from Oklahoma City, published Sept. 11.
Tall buildings in the crowded core of downtown Nashville, Tenn., flank the Nashville Church of Christ, formerly the Central Church of Christ.
• Ted Parks: Historic Nashville church building languishes amid lawsuits, from Nashville, Tennessee, published June 5.
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the oral arguments in U.S. vs. Skrmetti.
• Kenneth Pybus: Christian at center of big case has ‘this sweet spirit,’ published April 23.
Read all of Kenneth’s stories.
The sun sets over the South Walker Church of Christ building.
• Andrew Reneau: A Spanglish church where all are welcome, from Oklahoma City, published Aug. 13.
Graffiti and street art adorn an old bobsled track from the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, including a cartoon cat embracing a heart painted the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
• Erik Tryggestad: In Search of Shalom — the struggle toward divine reconciliation, from around the world, series published beginning in August.
Missionary Craig Young speaks to American mission team members in the century-old chapel of the abandoned Betheline monastery in Marseille, France.
• Bobby Ross Jr. (hey, that’s me!): Faith in France: Exploring spiritual renewal in a secular country, from France, series published in November and December.
Be sure to check out my full column on the best religion journalism of 2025.
BOBBY ROSS JR. is Editor-in-Chief of The Christian Chronicle. Reach him at [email protected].
