Church Life+Ministry

Babies Halt the Great Commission
Christian researchers think population growth will stall the gospel’s spread.
Os Guinness: Welcome to the 'Grand Age of Apologetics'
With the era of 'Christian consensus' coming to a close, we have a fresh opportunity to make the gospel appealing.
The Shocking Weakness of God's Truth
An excerpt from 'Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion'.
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Trusting the Church After Abuse
How I found comfort in continuing the conversation.
Dear Pastor, Can I Come to Your Church?
Inside a new experiment on evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and race.
Sin Gone Viral
How Internet outrage hits deep.
How We Became Too Busy for Friends
Our surface-level relationships have social and spiritual consequences.
They Shall Know Us by Our Parties
How I came to rethink the role of celebration in the Christian life.
Is It Robbing God to Tithe on Your After-Tax (Not Gross) Income?
The Israelites were never subject to withholding upward of 15 percent.
The Rise of Women and the Manhood Crisis
'Malestrom' author: When women flourish, men flourish too.
Pope Apologizes to 'First Evangelicals' for Persecution
The Waldensians suffered years of massacre, rape, and pillaging during the Catholic Church’s attempt to stomp it out.
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After Mars Hill, Will the Multisite Church Movement Grow Up?
More small churches are joining big ones in order to keep their doors open. Can multisite congregations grow without treating congregations as little more than real estate?
Pastor Exposed as Faithful to Wife of 17 Years
Despite the headlines, marital scandals don’t define the church.
Blogging Truth to Power
Why we listen to watchdogs and whistleblowers (from two of us who have been there)
What Mark Driscoll Told Brian Houston at Hillsong Conference
(UPDATED) Debate continues over how long pastoral restoration should take.
Gleanings: July/August 2015
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our July/August issue).
Cooking up Hope
A snapshot of Christian witness in the world (as it appeared in our July/August issue).
The Poverty Fighters' Bible
Six years later, 'When Helping Hurts' is still shaking up the church’s approach to charity.
'Korean Evangelicals on Steroids'
Meet the band of intensely devoted Asian missionaries working around the clock to re-Christianize America.
Healing Mission Field PTSD
How trauma counseling helps missionaries and the populations they serve.

Top Story April 29, 2024

India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.
India Says It Has a Border Crisis. Christians Say the Solution Will Divide Them.
The government plans to close its porous border with Myanmar to boost security, separating ethnic groups that straddle the boundary.

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