Most churches have some type of security measures in place during worship services. Pastors point to intentional plans and armed church members more than other measures, but compared to three years ag...
Most of us move at a frantic pace with little time for intentional rest. As author and artist Justin McRoberts works to balance his work and creative life with his spiritual and family life, he unders...
Gary Roosma can attest to the challenges of organizing a worship service onboard a cargo ship.It's a complicated process, reaching out to the rotating cast of captains aboard the ships in the Port of ...
The Christian and Missionary Alliance (CMA) has decided to ordain women and allow them to carry the title of "pastor." More than 60 percent of the denomination's delegates approved the two changes at ...
The Bible translation ministry unfoldingWord has engaged churches across countries and cultures, but a recent project in Chad brought a new dynamic to their work: The majority of the translators were ...
Paul Eshleman, an evangelism strategist who organized one of the largest outreach efforts of the 20th century so that everyone in the world could hear at least once that God loved them, died on May 24...
Surveying the scene on a rainy day in Berlin, the Protestant gunman recognized his target. Living hidden under an assumed name in the Weimar Republic, the once-famous official exited his apartment, wa...
If one pictures "radical Islam," chances are the image resembles Osama bin Laden, Boko Haram in Nigeria, or the ISIS fighters of Iraq and Syria. And the connotation is that they are out to kill--or at...
Sergei Karpenko's Chicago church is now almost entirely made up of refugees from the Russian war against Ukraine.Many of them aren't from a church background, so the pastor of Bible Church of Ukraine-...
"About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were all listening to them" (Acts 16:25). This happened in a jail cell in Macedonia about 2,000 years ago.Many y...
More pastors are encouraging members to adopt and provide foster care at a time when adoptions have declined in the US.A Lifeway Research study found more than 2 in 5 US Protestant churchgoers (44%) s...
In what could be a sign of COVID-19's influence, some sectors of U.S. society--specifically white evangelicals and Republicans--are showing a growing aversion to the requirement that schoolchildren be...
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) saw its largest membership decline in more than a century last year, and church attendance has not rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, even though a significant sur...
This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here.Back in the early- to mid-2000s, I would guest-host a Christian talk radio program from time to time, and I learned a lot from th...
I have no business comparing myself to anyone, and neither do you. Trust me, you don't want to be like her. You want to be like Jesus.It's crazy how much a year can change a person. I know I'm preachi...
Netflix's miniseries Beef has been making waves for its uncomfortably accurate depiction of the Korean American church experience.The show tells the story of struggling contract worker Danny Cho (play...
Iowa Wesleyan University freshman Emma Soukup started crying when she heard the news that her school, a 181-year-old United Methodist institution, would close at the end of this semester.She told the ...