Church Life+Ministry

Dispatch: Conservatives Just Got Clobbered
Last week's American Anglican Council meeting in Texas announced victory prematurely
Translating the Anglican Primates
"Interpretations vary widely on what last week's statement means, how forceful it was, and what's next"
Naval Chaplain Succeeds Ogilvie in Senate
An interview with Barry Black
Agencies Announce Short-Term Missions Standards
Similar codes have been established in Great Britain and Canada
Free the Doctors
Agency pays school debts of medical missionaries
Casting for Whitefish
Black congregation offers whites five dollars to attend
The Good Effects of the Good News
A convert from Islam answers critics hostile to the Christian mission
The Defender of the Good News: Questioning Lamin Sanneh
"The Yale historian and missiologist talks about his conversion, Muslim-Christian relations, Anglican troubles, and the future of Christianity"
Campus Collisions
Why InterVarsity Christian Fellowship was derecognized at some of America's leading universities
Resolved: Conventions Are Hell
Ten truths that can help reformers survive (and thrive) at annual denominational meetings
Do Drink the Water
"Disillusioned missionary, 'Spirit-inspired' invention transform church's ministry in the Dominican Republic."
Why Don't They Listen?
John Stott on the most pernicious obstacles to effective world evangelism
Worship at the O.K. Corral
Cowboy churches shape their ministries for the western at heart
Indigenous and Evangelistic
"Isolated from the infusion of foreign missionaries by Sri Lankan laws, the island's church knows that to survive, it must focus on evangelism"
One Friendship at a Time
Kids Hope USA shows the power of mentoring children
Virgil Gulker: Calling a Child by Name
God roams America's public schools looking for us
Dispatch: Deputies Slice into the Gordian Knot
The Episcopal Church's House of Deputies approves Gene Robinson as New Hampshire Bishop. The House of Bishops will vote today.
Dispatch: Praise the Lord and Pass the Condoms
"Southern Hemisphere primates warned that approving Gene Robinson would place the church outside most of the world's 72 million Anglicans. You'll get over it, responded about 60 percent of the House of Deputies"
Dispatch: Gene Robinson Takes Questions in a Church called Gethsemane
"Speaks on reparative therapy, potential schism, and whether he really left his wife for his male lover"
Dispatch: What in the World Is God Doing?
"For Episcopalians, the night may be darkest before the dawn."

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