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Worship Can Sound Like Silence and Feel Like Rest
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Come Ye Pastors, Heavy Laden
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.
Kelsey Kramer McGinnis
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In Our Pandemic-Scarred Churches, God Is Making All Things New
A look inside our fall issue of CT Pastors.
Kelli B. Trujillo
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Rebuilding Church Community: What’s Actually Working?
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Compiled by Markus Miller
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What We Lose When We Livestream
Do our online viewers truly realize what they’re missing?
Brandon Washington
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Five Lies of Our Anti-Christian Age
Rosaria Butterfield
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Doctrine of Good Works
Thomas H. McCall
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Evangelism: Learning from the Past (The Eerdmans Michael Green Collection)
Michael Green
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How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South
Esau McCaulley
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Impossible Christianity: Why Following Jesus Does Not Mean You Have to Change the World, Be an Expert in Everything, Accept Spiritual Failure, and Feel Miserable Pretty Much All the Time
Kevin DeYoung
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Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways
Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
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Fly Me to the Moon: Praying for Peace this Mid-Autumn Festival
A former NASA R&D director contemplates how faith in God has shaped lunar explorations.
James Hwang
The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19
Pastors Wonder About Church Members Who Never Came Back Post-Pandemic
New research shows disagreement over COVID-19 policies drove changes in attendance, but “a lot of it is a mystery.”
Hannah McClellan
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15 Percent of Churches Laid Off Staff in COVID-19. Many Are Still Looking for Work.
For some, pandemic firing prompted a turn to secular employment.
Daniel Silliman
The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19
COVID-19 Hit Black Churches Harder, but They Weathered It Better
New research shows how Black churches suffered during the pandemic. But these congregations also found unity where others were torn apart.
Emily Belz
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J.D. Greear: Tim Keller’s Friendship Transformed My Preaching
Three lessons the late pastor-theologian taught me about the art of sermons.
J.D. Greear
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Culture War Is Not Spiritual Warfare
Our ideological opponents are not the enemy.
Russell Moore
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100,000 Reuses for the Church to Find
With a record number of congregations predicted to close their doors by 2025, multiuse developments may be the future for shrinking congregations and empty buildings.
David Roach
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India By Any Other Name? Christians Braced for ‘Bharat’ or Not
Believers weigh what the latest postcolonial name change discussion would mean for religious freedom and pluralism in the Hindu-majority nation.
Surinder Kaur
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Eating Bitterness: My Culture Helps Me Persevere. The Bible Helps Me Hope.
Both talk about endurance in suffering, but only Scripture encourages me to boast in my weakness.
Isabel Ong
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Students impacted by pandemic isolation seem drawn to Christian communities and education.
Daniel Silliman
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