A new study finds most women are satisfied with their church.
Hispanic influence grows in faith and national life.
Your words have power.
Dramatic rise in broadcast nudity.
A new generation of snake-handling preachers is emerging
Half of adults want more biblical influence on society.
News you can use
News you can use
Cohabitating couples treated to free church wedding.
Barna President David Kinnaman examines the trend.
Distressed by consumer Christianity, this church razed the ministries enjoyed by so many for so Iong—and started over.
These pop culture references belong in the dustbin.
Boys’ brains are being rewired by video games and online porn.
Excessive Internet use, online gaming, and porn are rewiring the male brain
Currents
Churches are putting social media to good use.
Currents
Currents
This church takes a hit, then comes out fighting. Can they ever find peace?
Currents: news you can use
Will fewer family moves produce more stable churches?
More churches are using Facebook to get the word out.
To build or not to build? Sign-up to ask your questions during our live webinar.
Expectations and the economy are forcing churches to ask foundational questions.
Survey shows average salary and benefits decline.
Honoring the departed and the budget.
Is a relaxed attitude toward alcohol among clergy leading to a new battle over prohibition?
Now is the time to consider the vital role of pastoral ministry to families facing hard times.
Pastoral teams are still trying to bridge the generation gap.
Three churches find new meaning in old ways.
Some of what I’ve learned in a decade at Leadership.
Weekly readers react to James Wcaptioners’s celestial conspiracy theory.
Why pull out all the stops for people who attend once a year?
How churches are adapting to the visual revolution.
New research shows five kinds of Christians in America.
Four approaches to congregational evangelism.
How “lead worshiper” Joseph Garlington helps people recognize holy moments and encounter God.
Missional is more than a trend as today’s Christians recover an old calling.
This Holy Day is trampled in the Christmas rush.
The ties that bind feel looser at church and tighter at the parsonage.
Andy Stanley and Jim Collins in an unexpected point-counterpoint.
The road back to ministry after a moral lapse—whether physical or virtua—is long and difficult. How can the restoration process be improved?
Lessons for leaders from Hurricane Katrina.
An interview with Leadership managing editor Eric Reed
Our congregation had no future without repenting of our past.
Aimee Semple McPherson’s Angelus Temple is full once again, as Matthew Barnett takes up her pulpit and two of her passions.
Sometimes that’s how Christmas feels to me.
Bad news: 95% experience conflict. Good news: 94% report positive results.
Finding a heart for ministry in a place (or situation) you don’t like.
Lilly Endowment offers up to $45,000 for renewal leave.
Is your church ready to answer the questions raised by Mel Gibson’s Crucifixion movie?
Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.
Weekly Readers respond to Chad Hall’s intentional time out from ministry.
Zoning battles make churches feel unwelcome–and what to do about it.
As churches experiment with preaching on video. What are we learning?
Throughout the country, churches find creative ways to serve their communities.
Clergy ratings drop to lowest level ever; moral decline expected.
Leadership readers choose Jakes and Swindoll as most effective preachers.
What do you say from the pulpit about national crises and tragedies?
Service is a sweet-smelling sacrifice.
Our unusual Lenten fast.
Lessons on finishing well.