Abstaining from eating confronts the cultural lies we believe about our bodies.

Their pastors are mostly evangelical, sometimes bivocational, and eager for additional workers and funding to better serve their communities.

What if we ordered our habitual gatherings around Christ and the gospel story more than twice a year?

Here’s why the new denomination may or may not fit the label.

Ahead of the first general conference, the new denomination is weighing possible limits on leaders.

Aslan is fictional, but the real Lion of Judah reminds us that we’re forgiven.

How groups like Hillsong learned to let go of the literal in favor of creative collaboration.

A Christian reconciliation group in Israel and Palestine warned that war would come. Now the war threatens their relevance.

When it comes to defending the faith, local congregations have long been the first line of defense.

How a romance author journeyed with God through an unwanted divorce.

Nijay Gupta helps us rediscover the compelling strangeness of the earliest Christians.

Attention to bodies and cultural conflict has brought attention to the question of what it means to be human.

Only on our best days do we get a glimpse of the joyful labor to come.

When I married into a Jewish family, antisemitism hit home. Now, the holy day reminds me of our future hope.

I want to continue to call myself a complementarian. But we need to reclaim the term.

Are churches moving to an egalitarian model truly embracing female leadership?

The biggest New Testament passages on gender roles may have more to do with marriage than ministry.

Scott W. Sunquist calls the American church to observe the diversity in ecclesiologies around the world.

I needed female heroes, and I found them in ancient churches.