Our weekly selection of links across the web.

An intentional degree is one in which people who have gone before you have thought deeply on it and created a curriculum to give you greater direction.

Survey finds very few respond to #PrayFor... hashtag campaigns.

Give us grace, O Lord.

Kelly Edmiston talks about conversing with God on her run.

In the power of the resurrection cycles of poverty and addictions can be broken.

Highlights from our archives.

Weird Bible names are on the rise. What’s behind the trend?

In today’s churches, we place more of an emphasis on church planting through people than we do church planting through churches.

A Bible study program that focuses on following Jesus.

Ruth Tucker reflects on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The primary call on my life is not to do something for Jesus; the primary call on my life is to be with Jesus”

What women may refuse to disclose to researchers at a clinic, they’re confessing in Bible studies decades later.

How a hyper-focus on “attracting the young” can sideline the aging faithful.

Why the unprecedented natural disaster is an opportunity to start listening to indigenous voices.

Texts in the Old Testament about holy war and war rape continue to challenge evangelical thinking.

Vous, les 99 %, n'existez pas pour aider les professionnels du ministère à accomplir le Grand Mandat missionnaire. C’est nous qui existons pour vous aider à le faire.

(UPDATED) Beheaded Brethren leader taken captive in Nigeria said he was at peace with death because Jesus “is still alive.”

Instead of starting with our questions, we should start where people are and walk them to the gospel.