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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

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Budgets

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Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Virtual Confession

Cartoon

Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

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Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

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20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

Our Latest

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It’s Time to Make New Kingdom Friends

Chip Sweney and Robert Kim

It’s not just God who is for us. We’re meant to be supported by a band of saints across dividing lines.

Kevin Rideout makes preflight checks before transporting a team from Hope Springs International in Niger.

News

US Missionary Pilot Kidnapped in Niger

Emmanuel Nwachukwu

Local Nigerien missionaries are shocked and saddened; foreign workers there provide training, aid, and encouragement.

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The Bulletin

JD Vance’s Interfaith Marriage, Fighting in Nigeria, Nick Fuentes Interview

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Vance hopes his wife becomes a Christian, fighting continues in Nigeria, and Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes.

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Excerpt

The ‘Whole Counsel of God’ Requires Seeking Justice—and Naming Sin

An excerpt from Don’t Let Nobody Turn You Around on family history, gospel music, and the great Christian legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

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You Can Be a Christian and a Patriot

Rachel Ferguson

Daniel Darling calls believers to their political duty, no matter the chaos.

A exhibition from the collection of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Berlin, Germany, showing traditional Islamic art.

Who Are the Ismaili Muslims?

The history of this small Shiite sect includes assassinations, persecution, and periods of adherence to pluralism.

Women working in a paddy field in the Malkangiri tribal district of India.

A Pastor Stood Up to Persecution in India. Christianity Spread.

“It is very scary out there. … But the Holy Spirit reminds [me] that ‘for when I am weak, then I am strong.’”

Afghan refugee children at a refugee camp

News

Trump’s Refugee Policy ‘Is Slamming the Door on Persecuted Christians’

Faith organizations hope the Trump administration will reverse course after the announcement of a historically low refugee ceiling.