Service

A conservative pastor I know opened his home to children whose parents were deported. His witness has me examining my comfortable life.

What if the most radical thing about Christmas isn’t that God came near—but that he came to serve?

Sociologist Allison Daminger’s new book on the cognitive labor of family life is insightful but incomplete.

For too many of us, faith is a private affair that exists largely in our own thoughts—yet those thoughts are not particularly deep.

What will our generation do with the increased life expectancy God has blessed us with?

How the early church’s example of public witness helps us avoid the extremes of triumphalism and retreat.

Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities.

Caregivers are prime candidates for burnout, but social worker Holly Oxhandler says we find healing when we honor God’s image in ourselves and those we serve.

God shows up in the gestures and actions of his church.

What we want for ourselves becomes what we offer to others.