When God announced the birth of Christ to sweaty, uncouth shepherds, he signaled something important about the kind of Messiah he was sending.

We must allow Scripture to guide us as leaders without losing sight of all the other wisdom the Bible provides to us. 

Before he was named to the university’s top post, law professor Jim Gash helped free a falsely convicted teen in East Africa and became an advocate for justice reform.

Pastors, denominational leaders, and curious Christians need to be reassured—American Christianity is not becoming more liberal.

Though far fewer Americans are writing off charitable donations, most ministries reported stable giving last year. Denominations saw the biggest decline.

One needs to know the warning signs of burnout and look to ways to activate support and self-care and to discern a clearer alignment with God’s sustainable calling.

Like each of us, pastors are people with needs, capacities, and limitations. These capacities are not limitless despite pressures and messages to the contrary.

In recognizing the crucial role that church leaders play in eradicating the stigma around mental illness, Rick and Kay Warren have set out on a mission to educate others about mental illness.

Thanksgiving, giving thanks, and/or being thankful is both expressive and confessional. 

Each Thanksgiving season, I'm struck by the fact that people give thanks for things that they perhaps did not expect.

Upside down gratitude is the ability to give thanks even for the parts of our lives which lead us to sadness and struggle and suffer.

In communist East Germany, the church was supposed to be a refuge from the government’s godlike gaze. But the secret police managed to bribe and flatter their way in.

Confrontation at protest site forces evangelical faith from the pulpit to the public square.

And why advocates say US commitment to the cause cannot let up now.

The income gap in the US corresponds with a church attendance gap.

We’re called to offer our thanksgiving in all circumstances—but we're especially likely to when it’s a national holiday.

The Edinburgh New Testament professor modeled faithful scholarship with his work on historic devotion to Jesus.

Suburban America is a strategic mission field.

A careful observation through history demonstrates that the single greatest source of a church’s catastrophic implosion comes not from imperfect theology but from deficient character.