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8 ways to recruit, engage, and keep volunteers
Churches need volunteers. Those volunteers need something in return.
How Wendell Berry helps us negotiate our post-agrarian condition
Something is lost when we no longer know the art of filling a wagon.
In Europe, religious minorities face mounting hostility, harassment
Nationalism and anti-immigrant movements have gained ground.
After a fire destroyed his life’s work, an artist renews quest to paint Torah
Yoram Raanan lost hundreds of paintings. But from high-quality prints that remained, Meira Raanan created a book, Art of Revelation: A Visual Encounter with the Jewish Bible.
Imprinted on idols
Like goslings, we tend to attach ourselves to the wrong things—like political parties.
Over-packing for the journey (Mark 6:1-13)
Is this passage more than a cautionary tale about the tendency to stuff a suitcase to the gills?
U.S. travel ban leaves far-flung Syrian family in limbo
Dahouk al-Omar has been hoping to be reunited with a son in Chicago. Now it's uncertain whether that will ever be possible.
Proposed Christian law school reconsiders sexual conduct restrictions after Canadian court ruling
Law societies denied accreditation to the program at Trinity Western University, an evangelical school in British Columbia, citing its community covenant as discriminating against LGBTQ applicants.
Why did Paul prefer singleness for himself and others?
The apostle reminds us that Christian life—married or not—isn't about personal fulfillment.
The talented Tara Isabella Burton
In Burton's debut novel, Louise and Lavinia represent the possibility that compulsive self-disclosure is a form of self-concealment.
In Revelation, faithful testimony is peaceable—not necessarily civil
The disruptive way of the Lamb
Since before #MeToo, Boz Tchividjian has held abusers in church accountable
Tchividjian, a grandson of Billy Graham, founded GRACE as the Catholic abuse scandal was emerging in the early 2000s—alerting Protestants to the issue in their churches.
What The Americans teaches about deception and relationships
By the end of the final season, the series has shown the best and worst of our homeland—and spies with souls.
August 5, Ordinary 18B (John 6:24-35)
I have an enduring memory of bread I ate when I was four. Jesus' bread also abides.
The Red Hen and the spirit of Eucharist
Sarah Huckabee Sanders was denied a meal at a Virginia restaurant. I wonder who's welcome at our table.
No tolerance for zero tolerance
The Trump administration's treatment of vulnerable migrants—particularly children—is neither fair nor humane.
A deep history of women’s cultural criticism
Michelle Dean's book isn't exactly a group biography. But it is a highly entertaining feast of quotes, anecdotes, and analysis.
In The Baghdad Eucharist, an Iraqi Christian family weathers Saddam, U.S. invasion, and ISIS
Sinan Antoon's acclaimed novel, now out in English, sheds light on the realities faced by Christians in Iraq.
Justice for our children is next (Mark 5:21-43)
Jairus knows the weight of justice delayed as justice denied. But he keeps moving.
Dutch Parliament approves limited ban on burqa, niqab
Only a few hundred women in the Netherlands wear face-covering veils, studies suggest.