Church Life+Ministry

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.
Christian, Meet Confucius
Forget the made-up Internet quotes. The ancient Chinese philosopher has serious wisdom for followers of Christ.
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My Dad, the Sinner and Saint
How I learned to see my father as more than his unfaithful past.
Died: Menes Abdul Noor, 85, Former Pastor of Middle East’s Largest Evangelical Church
Author/translator of 100 books, Abdul Noor used literacy campaigns and Bible-based preaching to spread the gospel.
Should Denominations Apologize for Racial Acts They Didn’t Commit?
The Presbyterian Church in America debates the sins of its fathers.
Brené Brown: Why We Need to Own Our Failures
Our darkest chapters don’t require a Christian rewrite.
Whole As Whole Can Be: Dieting While Loving Ourselves and Our Neighbors
The challenge of clean eating and community.

Top Story May 13, 2024

Why the Pacific Islands Are 90 Percent Christian
Why the Pacific Islands Are 90 Percent Christian
It wasn’t only because of missionaries from the West, says a Tongan Australian theologian.

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