“The history of a church,” one member wrote in an old scrapbook I found, is “an unfolding pageant of life.”
How American Protestant missionaries helped usher in post-Protestant America
David Hollinger shows how the social gospel principles that drove mission abroad boomeranged back home.
In 1961, Margaret Flory started a new kind of mission program.
Standing at the graveside with the last lingering family members, time seems thick.
Putting clergy health in perspective
Pastors and their complex relationship with their work—and with themselves
Is there any good news in Jesus' teaching on divorce?
Our old, clerical ways cannot be redeemed.
It is the church's work.
11 adverbs for good preaching
The best preachers, says Russell Mitman, preach liturgically, eschatologically, multi-sensorily, and eight more ways that end in -ly.
Yetemegnu Mekonnen lived faithfully in turbulent times.
God is the encounter we can't control.
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: "silence."
Some buzzwords that are due for a sabbatical
Can Christians transform culture?
Jamie Smith thinks it might be the other way around.
4 Bible storybooks that leave space for children’s imagination
In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more.
