“Churches are places of high trust—and high risk.”
We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “return.”
I want others to know the power of the gospel the same way she does.
The people come, bringing something of themselves. Then they leave.
Peterson never delivered a formula for success. He just wrote about pastoral work and how to live it.
Peterson has influenced my pastoral life and mind more profoundly than anyone else.
The migrants have bigger concerns than U.S. policy. They know the terrors they are fleeing.
I’ve been trying to follow Thomas Keating’s advice: learn to be silent with God.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God has 5 million members—66 years after it began.
Motherhood and ministry are intertwined for me.
“If we can’t afford two boxes,” my grandmother said, “we can’t afford one.”
Two new (very different) Old Testament translations
Is it man or humanity? Ark or chest?
Why don’t the Gospels describe Jesus’ appearance?
Joan Taylor's top-notch scholarship reads like a detective thriller.
An economist’s call for a politics of global solidarity
Daniel Cohen asks: When our culture of growth collapses, what will society look like?
Is our democracy doomed to become more and more exclusionary?
Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens offer a discouraging diagnosis—and some specific remedies.
How I got schooled by Franchesca Ramsey’s hilarious memoir
Ramsey shows the high stakes (and common mistakes) of online activism.
Faith-based groups have spent years building relationships in North Korea with efforts such as improving farming or providing health care. Now the U.S. State Department has a visa embargo.
Ramadan Dabash sought to be the first East Jerusalem resident to serve on the city council since 1967.
The neighborhood’s unity has been evident in the wake of the murders during sabbath services.
The latest treaty is the second attempt for South Sudan to find peace after it became independent from Sudan in 2011.
Close to 70 items that have come on the market since 2002 as Dead Sea Scroll fragments appear to be suspect, one scholar said.
Boase, who is English, mistakenly voted once after a driver’s licensing employee offered him a registration form.
“My leadership style is inclusive,” said Green, a lifelong Lutheran.
“I’ve loved being a pastor, almost every minute of it,” Peterson once told the Century.