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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

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Budgets

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Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

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Virtual Confession

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Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

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Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

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Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

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20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

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The Manosphere Gets Discipline Right and Dependence Wrong

Young men are right to want agency, clarity, and strength. But grit alone cannot carry them.

Members of Christ Church in Kerala, India.

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Amid Floods and Heat Waves, Indian Church Fights Climate Change

Christ Church in Kerala tends to its garden while helping its parishioners and neighbors live sustainably.

Two microphones with angry red lines coming from them.

A Civil War of Words

Kara Bettis Carvalho

Evangelical factions can increasingly be identified by our speech. We agree on big issues yet insult and talk past each other.

Members of the group "Concerned Women for America" pray outside the US Supreme Court as the Court hears oral arguements in Chiles v. Salazar.

Is a Ban on Conversion Therapy Constitutional?

In her Supreme Court challenge, evangelical therapist Kaley Chiles calls the Colorado law a violation of her free speech.

Men in suits surround Tony Evans to pray for him.

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Tony Evans Will No Longer Pastor Dallas Megachurch After Restoration

Adelle M. Banks - Religion News Service

Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship announced that its pastor of 48 years won’t return to leadership. The church expects son Jonathan Evans to succeed him.

A mom and son gardening.

You Don’t Have to Be Radical

Most Christians aren’t monks, missionaries, or martyrs. We’re unimpressive and unsatisfactory—yet saved by God’s scandalous grace.

Pastor Issak and a picture of Stuartpuram.

From a Village of Bandits to a Village of the Gospel

Stuartpuram in India’s Andhra Pradesh was once known for its armed robbers. Then the gospel changed them.