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Learning to walk under the weight of ministry's many hats.
Steve Cuss
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Worship Can Sound Like Silence and Feel Like Rest
The Liturgy Collective Gathering aims to offer a reprieve to the leaders responsible for filling the soundtracks of our services.
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Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis
Beth Macy
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An Invitation to Joy: The Divine Journey to Human Flourishing
Daniel J. Denk
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Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation
Jon Ward
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Reading for the Love of God: How to Read as a Spiritual Practice
Jessica Hooten Wilson
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Lent: The Season of Repentance and Renewal (Fullness of Time, 1)
Esau McCaulley
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Jonathan Pennington
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Manifesting isn’t the answer. Consenting to holiness is.
Ken Shigematsu
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Canadian Christians Launch Collective for Climate Action
Tearfund and A Rocha see the impact in humanitarian crises now and want to organize churches to help.
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Worship Music Is Emotionally Manipulative. Do You Trust the Leader Plucking the Strings?
The Spirit is at work, but so are the mechanisms around high-production sets.
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A Tale of Two New York City Pastors
One formed me. The other entertained me.
Kara Bettis Carvalho
Sola Scripturas: Can Evangelicals Befriend the ‘Protestant Reformers of Islam’?
Interview with scholar of American Salafism finds commonalities—and potential for engagement—between the austere Islamic interpretive movement and the Christian community most wary of them.
Jayson Casper
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The late pastor theologian gave strong counsel to me and so many others in ministry.
Russell Moore
Tim Keller Changed Church Planting, from City to City
From Beirut to Barcelona, pastors reflect on his influence.
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Tim Keller Wanted to Learn from the Global Church. Even Secularizing Europe.
What the Reformed pastor saw in the continent's Christians—and why it earned him the respect of its church planters.
René Breuel
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The Spirit’s descent at Pentecost is a model for diverse and distributed leadership.
Hannah King
They Sang ‘a Heavenly Song’ in a Dark Chinese Jail
Two Chinese Christian women ministered to their cellmates and prison guards with stories, prayers, and hymns.
E.F. Gregory
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