Church Life+Ministry

Rethinking the $3,000 Missions Trip
When I learned that kids in my city couldn't swim, I started to rethink how much I'd invested in overseas missions.
Meeting Our Tokyo Neighbors with Open Doors
In a culture suspicious of institutional faith, our church has found quiet ways to serve.
Women of the Web
Finding solidarity, inspiration, and conversation between Jewish and evangelical bloggers.
Is Family Decline Behind Religious Decline?
It's an important factor, but it's not the whole story.
What Does Preaching Do to Your Brain?
Richard Cox explores the findings of neuroscience on how we hear sermons.
Honoring David Neff, The Gentleman Scholar
A tribute to Christianity Today's esteemed editor in chief.
A Christian Case Against Early Marriage
Sometimes you need to break up to grow up.
They Got High on Jesus Instead
Larry Eskridge remembers the hippies, druggies, and assorted countercultural freaks who embraced Christianity in the late 1960s.
Planting Deep Roots
When you get serious about cultural change, you get serious about institutions.
Is Interfaith Marriage Always Wrong, Given that the Bible Teaches Us Not to Be 'Unequally Yoked'?
Experts weigh in on biblical bonding.
Marching to Town Hall with Refugees and Immigrants
How my community stood up for the vulnerable.
The Very Worst Trend Ever
How our love of brokenness actually fails us.
Solving Poverty Is Rocket Science
Christians are among America’s most compassionate people. But we can do a better job responding to the complexity of poverty.
A Youth-Run Supper Club That's Wowing San Francisco
How Teresa Goines is teaching troubled teens at Old Skool Cafe.
Youth Ministry's Family Blind Spot
Churches might be spending too much time preparing us for missions and not enough for motherhood.
Same-Sex Marriage and the Single Christian
How marriage-happy churches are unwittingly fueling same-sex coupling—and leaving singles like me in the dust.
Widowed by Our Immigration Laws
How the church can support these modern-day Ruths and Naomis.
The Right Side of History Is Full of Rewrites
Both same-sex marriage advocates and opponents have seen national recognition of the unions as inescapable. But fortune tellers don’t have great track records.
Marriage Help Comes to Capitols
How experts are trying to shape divorce policies in fresh ways.
What Did the Supreme Court Really Change Today?
The rulings today on DOMA and Proposition 8 are an opportunity for gospel witness.

Top Story November 10, 2020

Jon Tyson: ‘Run into the Controversy’
Jon Tyson: ‘Run into the Controversy’
Why the NYC pastor’s goal is “to winsomely offend everybody.”

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