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Culturally Relevant or Contextually Real, Part 2: More than Semantics?
When a term becomes so misunderstood that it loses its value, it needs rewording. We may be there with cultural relevance.
Over Professionalizing What Should be the Common Practice of Evangelism
Evangelism should never leave the realm of the non-professionals
Innovative Church Practices, Inspired by Stock Photos: The Bible Sniffer
Your pew Bibles should always smell, like, super good.
The Church’s Law-Grace Throwdown: 300 Years and Going Strong
A group of 18th-century Scottish churchmen fought bitterly over the right teaching. How we can we avoid veering toward their extremes?
We Need Mentors in Our Spiritual Lives, Too
Diverse relationships within the church help teach and train.
Weekend Edition—April 8, 2016
Religious liberty, Kindness, Discipleship, and more!
Why International Adoptions by Americans Have Hit a 35-Year Low
Most of the decline comes from three countries.
Reading Esther in the Shadow of ISIS
A Jewish philosopher’s perspective on how God delivers his people from radical evil.
7 Ways to Foster Creativity in Your Church
Your congregation is teeming with ingenuity. Here’s how to tap into it.
'God’s Not Dead' Scratches an Evangelical Itch
Alissa Wilkinson on why the film’s persecution narrative resonates with so many American Christians.
Here Is the Church, but Where Is the Steeple?
How those transcendent spires fell out of cultural favor, and why it's time to bring them back.
Tempted to Compare
One scan of social media left me feeling defeated.
In God We Trust
Do we really think about what "God" Americans trust?
Cultsploitation and True Believers
Being duped and blinded to the truth is no laughing matter. So why are we so obsessed with cults?
Stop Calling Ted Cruz a Dominionist
The Christian candidate's faith influences his platform, but not in the ways most critics assume.
Canada Thinks It Has a Better Way to Defend Religious Freedom
New government shuts down Office of Religious Freedom modeled after US version.
4 'Things' Available to Every Leader
The multiple-choice test you’re taking every day.
I Don’t Like the Same Small Churches You Don’t Like
The problems most people have with small churches aren’t about size, they’re about sickness. And sickness can happen in churches of any size.
How Do We Understand Blessing in a #Blessed Era?
Our social media mocking hasn’t gotten us closer to what it really means to live in God’s favor.
3 Tips for Reaching the Dechurched
Every church should be thinking about how to reach the dechurched

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Jon Tyson: ‘Run into the Controversy’
Jon Tyson: ‘Run into the Controversy’
Why the NYC pastor’s goal is “to winsomely offend everybody.”

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