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The Best Christian News Websites

Daily Christian news, opinion, and cultural commentary.

Christian news sites track faith, culture, ethics, and policy from various editorial perspectives. Christianity Today is the closest thing evangelicalism has to a flagship news outlet; The Pour Over summarizes major stories three times a week without clickbait; First Things publishes intellectual journalism on religion and politics; Religion News Service is the largest non-sectarian religion newswire; WORLD News Group leans conservative Christian; Baptist Press serves Southern Baptists; and The Christian Century represents the mainline Protestant tradition. They span theology, geography, and political philosophy.

Read across two or three to get depth. Most are free and all are ad-supported or nonprofit-funded. The table shows each site's perspective and frequency so you can choose a daily news source and a weekly digest, or rotate between them depending on which stories matter to you.

How we review →

Best overallThe Pour Over4.7The thrice-weekly Christian news email that summarizes major stories without picking a political team, then closes each one with a paragraph pointing readers back to Christ - and it has quietly become the default news source for a generation of Christians sick of tribal outrage.Best free optionChristianity Today4.5Christianity Today has quietly become the closest thing global evangelicalism has to a paper of record - and the podcast network it built on top of it is doing more cultural work than the magazine itself.
WebsiteRatingStarting priceFree tierPlatforms
The Pour Over4.7Free (Premium around $8/mo)YesEmail · Web · iOS · Android
Christianity Today4.5Free, then ~$59/yr for CT PremiumYesWeb · iOS · Android · Print
WORLD News Group4.4Around $59/yr digitalYesWeb · iOS · Android · Podcast apps · Print
Religion News Service4.4FreeYesWeb · Newsletter · Podcast · Wire syndication
First Things4.4Free articles · Magazine ~$45/yrYesWeb · Print magazine · Podcast · Newsletter
Premier Christian News4.2FreeYesWeb · iOS · Android · DAB Radio · Podcast apps
The Christian Century4.2Free articles · ~$45/yr print + digitalYesWeb · iOS · Android · Print magazine · Podcasts
Baptist Press4.2FreeYesWeb
Eternity News4.1FreeYesWeb · Email newsletters · Podcasts
The Christian Post4.0FreeYesWeb · iOS · Android · Newsletter
Sojourners4.0Free (articles); magazine subscription extraYesWeb · Print magazine · Email · Podcast
The Babylon Bee4.0Free, then ~$5/mo Bee+YesWeb · iOS · Android · Email · Social
Adventist Review4.0Free articles · magazine from around $19.95/yrYesWeb · iOS · Android · Print
byFaith Magazine4.0Free onlineYesWeb · Print magazine
Christian Standard4.0Free articles · print subscription extraYesWeb · Print · Email newsletter
LifeSiteNews4.0Free (donation-supported)YesWeb
Charisma News3.9FreeYesWeb · Email newsletters · Mobile browser
Relevant Magazine3.9Free, then around $5/mo for RELEVANT+YesWeb · iOS · Android · Podcast apps

The Pour Over

4.7★  The Pour Over Inc.

The thrice-weekly Christian news email that summarizes major stories without picking a political team, then closes each one with a paragraph pointing readers back to Christ - and it has quietly become the default news source for a generation of Christians sick of tribal outrage.

Christianity Today

4.5★  Christianity Today International

Christianity Today has quietly become the closest thing global evangelicalism has to a paper of record - and the podcast network it built on top of it is doing more cultural work than the magazine itself.

WORLD News Group

4.4★  God’s World Publications

A 45-year-old Christian newsroom with a flagship daily podcast and a family-wide news ecosystem - and an editorial stance it states out loud rather than hides.

Religion News Service

4.4★  Religion News Foundation

The largest non-sectarian religion newswire in America, founded in 1934 and quietly cited by Reuters, AP, and The New York Times - and a different kind of resource than almost everything else on this site.

First Things

4.4★  Institute on Religion and Public Life

The intellectual heavyweight of religion-and-public-life journalism in America - ecumenical in contributors, conservative in editorial sensibility, and unembarrassed about taking ideas seriously.

Premier Christian News

4.2★  Premier Christian Media Trust

The UK's leading Christian news service has quietly become the go-to outlet for readers who want church news that isn’t filtered through an American lens - and that single difference reshapes the entire feed.

The Christian Century

4.2★  The Christian Century Foundation

The oldest continuous Christian magazine in America and the editorial home of mainline Protestantism - a different vantage than the evangelical press, and that is exactly the point.

Baptist Press

4.2★  Southern Baptist Convention

The official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention - the place of record for SBC churches, entities, and the issues the denomination follows, written from inside the convention.

Eternity News

4.1★  Bible Society Australia

The closest thing Australia has to a national Christian newsroom, run out of Bible Society Australia - and the rare outlet where the Asia-Pacific church is the foreground, not a footnote.

The Christian Post

4.0★  The Christian Post Company

The Christian Post has quietly become one of the highest-traffic daily Christian news sites in the English-speaking world - fast, free, and unapologetically conservative-evangelical in voice.

Sojourners

4.0★  Sojourners (nonprofit)

For more than fifty years, Sojourners has been the loudest progressive evangelical voice in American Christianity - and the place that conversation still mostly lives.

The Babylon Bee

4.0★  The Babylon Bee, Inc.

A satire site that started as inside-baseball church-culture humor and grew into one of the most-shared conservative voices on the internet - and the audience reaction is split right down the middle.

Adventist Review

4.0★  Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference

The official news and opinion magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference, publishing continuously since 1849 - and the closest thing the worldwide Adventist movement has to a paper of record.

byFaith Magazine

4.0★  Presbyterian Church in America (PCA)

The official magazine of the Presbyterian Church in America - a denominational publication, not a broad Reformed portal, and the difference matters.

Christian Standard

4.0★  Christian Standard Media

The flagship magazine of the independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ since 1866 - the one publication that takes the Restoration Movement seriously on its own terms.

LifeSiteNews

4.0★  LifeSite

A conservative, Catholic-rooted advocacy news site built around pro-life, family, and religious-liberty coverage - explicitly activist in posture, and best read the way any advocacy outlet should be.

Charisma News

3.9★  Charisma Media

The dominant Pentecostal and Charismatic news outlet in America, covering the Spirit-filled church the way the Spirit-filled church actually talks about itself - for readers inside that world, and readers who want to understand it.

Relevant Magazine

3.9★  RELEVANT Media Group (founded by Cameron Strang)

The Christian culture magazine that has spent two decades trying to make faith feel less like a press release and more like a real conversation - and the audience that grew up on it has not let go.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best Christian news websites?

Christianity Today is the most trusted general evangelical outlet. The Pour Over summarizes major stories without sensationalism. First Things covers religion and public life from an intellectual angle. Religion News Service reports broadly across Christian traditions. Which is 'best' depends on which perspective and frequency suit your news diet.

Are Christian news sites free?

Yes. Christianity Today, The Pour Over, First Things, Religion News Service, WORLD News Group, Baptist Press, and The Christian Century are all free. Most are nonprofit ministries or publisher-supported, not paywalled. Some offer optional email newsletters or memberships for extra features.

Which site covers all Christian traditions fairly?

Religion News Service is the largest non-sectarian religion newswire, reporting across Catholic, Orthodox, evangelical, and mainline traditions without institutional bias. Christianity Today leans evangelical but reports broadly. First Things skews intellectual-conservative. No single outlet is perfectly neutral.

What's the difference in perspective between these sites?

Christianity Today represents evangelical Protestantism; First Things covers religion and politics from a traditionalist angle; Religion News Service aims for non-sectarian reporting; The Christian Century represents mainline Protestantism; WORLD News Group is conservative evangelical. Reading across them shows how Christian traditions interpret the same events differently.