Worry about earthly things

Ron Stanfield

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Return to Ritual

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Bill Hybels Talks REVEAL

A Leadership interview with Bill Hybels

Unfinished Symphony

Reviewed by Mike Lueken

Great Expectations

Rick Muchow

The Megachurch and the Monastery

Keith Meyer

Jesus Saves; Americans Spend

Collin Hansen

When Details Get You Down

Chris Armstrong

Co-Ed Staff Dynamics

Reviewed by Angie Ward

I Embraced the Blended Worship Balancing Act

Bob Kauflin

Church Growth by Google

Tyler Charles

Having Ears, Do You Not Hear?

An interview with Eugene Peterson

Single-Obsession Small Groups

Bill Search

With One Voice

A Leadership interview with Keith and Kristyn Getty

Are You Recession Ready?

Tom Sine

Unction Junction

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Let Us Stand for the Benediction

What to Pray for a New President

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Always Preaching

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Call to Worship

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Chant the Minutes

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Pastoral Counseling Session

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Praise Band

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Utah Flocks to Crusade Event at Campus Where Charlie Kirk Was Killed

Harvest Prude in Orem, Utah

Evangelicals take the stage for worship and altar calls in the Mormon-majority state.

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The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Jasmine Crowe-Houston: Love and Feed Your Neighbor

Reframing hunger as a justice issue, not charity.

A man cutting a cancel symbol instead of a turkey.

Which Topics Are Off Limits at Your Dinner Table?

Christine Jeske

A Christian anthropologist explains why we should talk about hard things and how to do it.

Are the Public Schools Falling Apart?

We need Christians to engage thoughtfully in local schools. That starts with understanding the problems.

Hands holding up music notes.

God Loves Our Middling Worship Music

Kelsey Kramer McGinnis

Songwriting might be the community-building project your church needs right now.

Pictures of the founders of Greek life organizations.

Black Greek Life Faces a Christian Exodus

Alyssa Rhodes

Believers are denouncing historical fraternities and sororities that have been beacons of progress.

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Public Theology Project

The Church Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Prepare Us for the Epstein Files

The path to justifying predatory behavior often follows the same seven steps. We can respond differently.