Church Life+Ministry

How the Other Half Reads: What I Learned from a Book on Manhood
Discovering the universal truth in our gender-specific teachings.
Jimmy Carter's Sunday School
Why You Shouldn’t Call That False Teaching a Heresy
How to tell which errors deserve the ultimate warning label.
Do You Believe a False Teaching?
Answer these questions to find out.
Why Christians Need to Embrace a Changing Definition of Family
Single friends: We “traditional” families need you.
Roseburg Pastors: ‘This Is Our 9/11’
Ministers ask for prayer as they counsel mourners, prepare for funerals.
Compassion International Sues Teen Mania over Acquire the Fire
Arrest warrant issued for Ron Luce, reports World magazine.
Are You Worshiping a Fake Jesus?
Daniel Darling catalogues the impostors vying for your devotion.
Pastors, Power, and Prettiness
When good compliments go bad.
The Justice-Forward Salvation Army
Combined with evangelism, it's a heady combination.
How Christian Institutions Can Stay Christian Amid Secular Pressure
Legal experts Stephen Monsma and Stanley Carlson-Thies say religious and secular organizations should enjoy equal freedom to live out their convictions.
Russell Wilson, Ciara, and Who Else Is Not Having Sex
The answer might surprise you.
I Don't Want Your Good Vibes. I Want Prayer.
There's no substitute for our communion with the Father.
Why Being a Pastor-Scholar Is Nearly Impossible
Three tensions of combining pastoral and academic work.
Gleanings: October 2015
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our October issue).
A Beautiful Escape
CT transcends the bitter realism in and outside the church.
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Responses to our July/August issue.
A History Lesson
Why we need one from time to time.
Pope Francis and Our Call to Evangelize the Cynics
Embracing the incremental work of our witness.
Church Splits Are Hell. This Play About One Isn’t.
Lucas Hnath’s "The Christians" gets complicated human and church life right.

Top Story May 4, 2024

‘Wildcat’ Is as Unsettling as Flannery O’Connor Would Have Wanted
‘Wildcat’ Is as Unsettling as Flannery O’Connor Would Have Wanted
Ethan Hawke has made a movie as scandalous as one of the writer’s short stories.

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