Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

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Leadership Journal Summer 2012

Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Richard Twiss

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

Mark Moring

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Eric Reed

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

Greg Taylor

For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel (Zondervan, 2011) By Darrin Patrick & Matt Carter with Joel A. Lindsey

Barnabas Piper

Emotional Stability

An interview with Peter Scazzero

Coming Down the Mountain

The Big Reveal

Guy Conn, as told to Paul Pastor

Why Did a Lesbian Couple Choose Our Church?

Redeeming Church Conflicts: Turning Crisis into Compassion and Care (Baker, 2012) Tara Barthel and David C. Edling

David Swanson

Word? Indeed!

Eric Reed

How to Spot a Transformed Christian

Gordon MacDonald

Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way (IVP, 2012) Stephen A. Macchia

David Swanson

Getting Psyched to Preach

How to Score a Sabbatical

Greg Asimakoupoulos

How to Knock Over a 7-11: And Other Ministry Training (Cheshire, 2011) Michael Cheshire

David Swanson

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

Cartoon

Budgets

Tim Walburg

Cartoon

Youth Pastor Needs

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Virtual Confession

Nick Hobart

Cartoon

Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

Cartoon

Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

Cartoon

20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

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The Bulletin

Pete Hegseth’s Future, Farmers on Tariffs, and Religious Decline Stalls

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll

Hegseth scrutinized for drug boat strikes, farmers react to Trump’s tariffs, and a Pew report says religious decline has slowed.

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The Debate over Government Overreach Started in 1776

Three books to read this month on politics and public life.

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The Call to Art, Africa, and Politics

Daniel Silliman

In 1964, CT urged Christians to “be what they really are—new men and women in Christ.”

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Turn Toward Each Other and Away from the Screen

Perhaps technology has changed everything. But God is still here, still wiring humans for connection and presence.

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Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

BONUS: Amanda Knox on the Satanic Panic and Wrongful Convictions

How elements of the satanic panic and conspiratorial thinking shaped a wrongful conviction.

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Death by a Thousand Error Messages

Carrie McKean in Midland, Texas

Classroom tech was supposed to solve besetting education problems. The reality is frustrating for students and costly for taxpayers.

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The Chinese Christian Behind 2,000 Hymns

X. Yang

Lü Xiaomin never received formal music training. But her worship songs have made her a household name in China’s churches.

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The Surprising Joys of a Gift-Free Christmas

Ahrum Yoo

Amid peak consumerism season, I prayed for ways to teach my children about selfless giving.