Why the best church small groups might take their cues from the Twelve Steps.

Stephen Lowe offers a biblical defense of online spiritual formation.

How a gang leader found salvation in prison.

Why God sends his people into battle armed with the tools of everyday life.

Why secular substitutes for religion will always leave us exhausted and unhappy.

Fewer than 1 percent of missionaries end up among the world's least-Christian peoples. New categories aim to highlight the areas most desperate for the gospel.

Even more than better systems and better policies, we need better theology.

We didn't accomplish everything we should have. God reminds us we didn't need to.

Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our May issue).

How youth ministries are reaching teens torn between Mexico and the US.

If the enemies of truth employ the arts of persuasion, then lovers of truth have no choice but to employ them more effectively.

Compiled by Matt Reynolds.

As young Brazilian missionaries, we learned to depend on God and the people we journeyed to reach.

The complexity of the situation even presents a challenge to Jewish Christian unity.

It turns out the Bible’s idea of worship is mostly about posture, not music or praise.

You can’t do everything yourself. And you can’t delegate tasks to people who haven’t been discipled. They have to be equipped first.

(UPDATED) Christians end Holy Week shaken by coordinated attacks at Sunday morning services and brunches on opposite coasts of the island nation.

The fact that Jesus climbed out of that tomb changes everything.