The 13th Doctor
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The 13th actor to inhabit the eponymous role of a time-traveling, face-changing alien in the BBC's long-running and beloved Doctor Who will be a woman, the network announced Sunday.

Jodie Whittaker, best known for her role in the British version of the BBC's detective series Broadchurch — which also stars the 10th Doctor, David Tennant — will succeed Peter Capaldi's 12th Doctor after his final appearance in the 2017 Christmas special.

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.