The Best of CT's Big Tent Initiative in 2025

With the Big Tent Initiative, Christianity Today aims to build bridges of conversation and common cause across our political and racial divides.

Our writers this year tackled a host of topics, from questions about evangelical identity to the masculinity crisis to political debates surrounding the Smithsonian Institution. Pastor and author Chris Butler mapped out how evangelicals and the Black church can avoid being ensnared by politics, writer Justin Hampton made the case that friendship requires intentionality, and editorial director Sho Baraka argued we can, in fact, use "colloquial theology."

Here are our favorite Big Tent essays and podcast episodes of 2025.