Church Life+Ministry
The champion of “native missions” trained more than 100,000 evangelists but got in trouble for financial mismanagement.
Christian urban designers and developers explain how their faith affects their work—and how their work affects your faith.
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Digital Lectors for a Postliterate AgePostliterate people still need God’s Word, and online Bible ventures have found eager listeners.
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SBC Membership Falls to 47-Year Low, But Church Involvement Is UpAmid the continued declines, Southern Baptists are celebrating back-to-back years of growth in worship attendance and baptism.
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The Key to Fighting Sex Trafficking? Showing up.Indonesia's Compassion First isn’t knocking down doors, but caring for victims and tutoring at-risk youth living in cemeteries.
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Let the Neurodivergent Children Come to MeGentle parenting is one tool to train up children who have disabilities with love and wisdom.
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Goodbye Postmodernism, Hello MetamodernismOur apologetics must evolve to engage with the new cultural mood of the next generations.
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Trash Problem Pushes Pastor to ActionA Honduran church leads the way in local garbage collection while praying for an international plastics treaty.español
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Hillsong Abuse Settlement Rejected Over NDAVictim says she wants accountability more than money.
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Conservative Methodists, UniteAfter this week’s UMC votes on LGBTQ issues, African Methodists should join American conservatives in the new Global Methodist denomination.
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The Anxious ChurchWhy the church has struggled to address mental illness well and how we can care better.
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United Methodists Strike Ban on LGBTQ ClergyAfter years of disagreement and the departure of thousands of churches, the change passed without debate.
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Particular Wrongs Need Particular RemediesEvery sin requires Christ’s atonement. But the Bible shows God punishing—and repairing—different sins differently.
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Billy Graham Preached at His Crusades. His Singers Believed They Were Preaching Too.A late historian explores how crusade hymns told both the classic story of gospel salvation and the evolving story of evangelical worship music.
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Care for the Environment Is Biblical. It’s Also a Witness to Environmentalists.Do activists often invest their work with religious significance? All the more reason for Christians to be discerning co-laborers.
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What Antisemitic Campus Chants Tell Us About This Angry EraThe rage of the mob is a poor substitute for real community.
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After Schism, United Methodists Vote to Restructure DenominationThe plan would organize UMC churches in four global regions, with each given more leeway around same-sex marriage and other theological issues.
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Your Church Drummer Has More and Less to Do These DaysHow the keeper of the beat is adapting to shifts in worship music.
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The Church Shouldn’t Be an Echo ChamberLet us not give up meeting together—even when we disagree.简体中文繁體中文
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Let the Seas Rise and Feed the PoorHelping marine biodiversity flourish is a means of participating in God’s work, says an Indonesian theologian.
News & Reporting
- Baptism by Flood: Kherson Christians Persevere After Ukraine Dam’s DestructionOccupied, liberated, and now underwater, Kherson remains on the frontline of fighting—and faith, as a local seminary president explains.
- Nondenominational Churches Are Adding Millions of Members. Where Are They Coming From?It’s not mainline traditions anymore.
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In Action
- Trading Spaces: Inner City Helps the SuburbsSuburban poor change the direction of ministry.
- Persecution Prompts Missions Agency to TransformOperation Mobilization India transforms itself into a local witness.
- Constructing PeaceOne Olympic athlete's efforts to build relationships between Sudan's Christians and Muslims.
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