Church Life+Ministry

The Mission of Art
W. David O. Taylor grounds his aesthetic passion in the local church.
Obama's AIDS Dilemma
White House funding priorities determine who will live and who will die.
More than Faithful Presence
Charles Colson responds to James Davison Hunter's 'To Change the World'.
Hunter and I Agree on Culture Making (He Just Seems Not to Know It)
Andy Crouch responds to James Davison Hunter's 'To Change the World'.
Faithful Presence
James Davison Hunter says our strategies to transform culture are ineffective, and the goal itself is misguided.
Ted and Gayle Haggard Start St. James Church
The couple incorporated their home-based prayer meetings 'to keep the accounting in order.'
Moroccan Crackdown
Expulsion of Christians surprises missiologists.
A Badly Broken Boarding School
The story behind the cover story.
A Candle in the Darkness
The president of Compassion International tells his story of childhood abuse and deliverance in a West Africa boarding school.
Mother's Day Worship?
Leaders weigh in on whether churches should celebrate Mother’s Day in worship services.
Jim Belcher, Francis Chan, N.T. Wright, and Others Leave the Pastorate to Write and Speak
Why church planters often quit their congregations.
Southern Baptists Make Plans to Tackle Declining Baptisms
Bonhoeffer Stood Fast
Martyred German pastor showed theology has consequences.
The Gulf of Mexico and the Care of Creation
We exercise dominion over creation not only when we use it, but also when we conserve it.
Sexual Slavery on Main Street
Trafficking of teenagers in the U.S. is getting worse. Here's what some Christians are trying to do about it.
On the Jesus Trail
What we learned from Jews, Muslims, and Arab Christians as we traced the footsteps of Christ in Galilee.
Heroic Tales from Distant Lands
Stories can help us visualize the new shape of world Christianity.
The iSeminary Cometh
Online education is jolting seminaries with rapid enrollment growth.
Wrightians and the Neo-Reformed: 'All One in Christ Jesus'
A dispatch from Together for the Gospel and Wheaton's Theology Conference with N.T. Wright.

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Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age
Biblical Literacy in a Postliterate Age
We must always be people of the Word, but we’ll have to reimagine deep engagement with Scripture.

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