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Leadership Journal Summer 2012

Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel (Zondervan, 2011) By Darrin Patrick & Matt Carter with Joel A. Lindsey

Emotional Stability

An interview with Peter Scazzero

Coming Down the Mountain

The Big Reveal

Guy Conn, as told to Paul Pastor

Why Did a Lesbian Couple Choose Our Church?

Redeeming Church Conflicts: Turning Crisis into Compassion and Care (Baker, 2012) Tara Barthel and David C. Edling

Word? Indeed!

How to Spot a Transformed Christian

Gordon MacDonald

Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way (IVP, 2012) Stephen A. Macchia

Getting Psyched to Preach

How to Score a Sabbatical

Greg Asimakoupoulos

How to Knock Over a 7-11: And Other Ministry Training (Cheshire, 2011) Michael Cheshire

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

Cartoon

Budgets

Cartoon

Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Virtual Confession

Cartoon

Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

Cartoon

20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

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The Bulletin

A Third Presidential Term, South American Boat Strikes, and ChatGPT Erotica

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Trump hints at running in 2028, US strikes more alleged drug boats, ChatGPT produces erotica.

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Review

Finding God on the Margins of American Universities

Perry L. Glanzer

A new account of faith in higher education adds some neglected themes to more familiar story lines.

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From Prohibition to Pornography

Daniel Silliman

In 1958, CT pushed evangelicals to engage important moral issues even when they seemed old-fashioned.

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Indian Churches Encourage Couples to Leave and Cleave

Divya Chirayath

For many couples, in-laws are a major source of marital strife.

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Tackling Unemployment

Interview by Haleluya Hadero

The head of The T.D. Jakes foundation on job assistance and economic empowerment.

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Review

First Comes Sex, Then Comes Gender

A new book acknowledges both categories as biblically valid—but insists on ordering them properly.

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In Politics, Contempt Is a Common Tongue

Antisemitic, racist texts show the need for spiritual and character renewal.

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The Just Life with Benjamin Watson

Stephen Enada: Exposing a Silent Slaughter

Unpacking the crisis facing Nigeria’s persecuted Church