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Leadership Journal Fall 2009

Church Renovation Blind Spots

Finding Myself in Fixed-Hour Prayer

The God Bearer

Lieutenant Commander Bruce Crouterfield

Church On Demand

Church ... Virtually

If God is in the House

The Sprawling Missional Campus

How to Ask for Money

Space Frontiers

Rick McKinley, Greg Taylor, Lance Newsom, and Dave Gibbons

Back to Square One

Reviewed by David Swanson

When Domestic Violence Knocks

I Was Wrong About Church Buildings

How a Mighty Church Falls

Gordon MacDonald

The Community Coffeehouse

Interpreting Cultural "Texts"

Kevin Vanhoozer

Walls Do Talk

Paul Louis Metzger

New Business Meetings Format

Sacred Space, Shared Space

A Leadership interview with Mel McGowan

Power outage or Power display?

Building for What Future?

Against the Current

A Leadership Interview with the staff of River City Community Church

Word to the Y's

Brandon O'Brien

No Raise for Pastors

Cartoon

Turning the Tables

Cartoon

But Is it Cost Effective?

Cartoon

Communion Cups

Cartoon

The Sacred Carafe

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Tagger Church

Cartoon

Man-and-Wife.com

Cartoon

Senior Pastor and Youth Minister

Cartoon

Sermon Unwritten

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Wicked or Misunderstood?

A conversation with Beth Moore about UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect Luigi Mangione and the nature of sin.

A collage made from the shape of Armenia combined with a painting of Noah's Ark.

Why Armenian Christians Recall Noah’s Ark in December

The biblical account of the Flood resonates with a persecuted church born near Mount Ararat.

Mary with baby Jesus in the stable

Review

The Virgin Birth Is More Than an Incredible Occurrence

Patrick Schreiner

We’re eager to ask whether it could have happened. We shouldn’t forget to ask what it means.

A Filipino boy in front of a nativity scene

The Nine Days of Filipino Christmas

Samson Uytanlet

Some Protestants observe the Catholic tradition of Simbang Gabi, predawn services in the days leading up to Christmas.

The Bulletin

Neighborhood Threat

The Bulletin talks about Christians in Syria, Bible education, and the “bad guys” of NYC.

Join CT for a Live Book Awards Event

A conversation with Russell Moore, Book of the Year winner Gavin Ortlund, and Award of Merit winner Brad East.

A song book made from paper pieces of different Christmas carols.

Excerpt

There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Proper’ Christmas Carol

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition.

A baby hand in hay

Advent Calls Us Out of Our Despair

Joni Eareckson Tada

Sitting in the dark helps us truly appreciate the light.