News&Reporting

Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple is full once again, as Matthew Barnett takes up her pulpit and two of her passions.

Sometimes that's how Christmas feels to me.

Bad news: 95% experience conflict. Good news: 94% report positive results.

Effective church evangelism is a group effort.

Finding a heart for ministry in a place (or situation) you don't like.

Lilly Endowment offers up to $45,000 for renewal leave.

Is your church ready to answer the questions raised by Mel Gibson's Crucifixion movie?

What do you say to Christmas-and-Easter-Only attenders?

Leadership surveys pastors and their congregations.

Once the darling of Christian music, Sandi Patty is still picking up the pieces of a broken past. Will the church welcome her back?

Weekly Readers respond to Chad Hall's intentional time out from ministry.

Zoning battles make churches feel unwelcome--and what to do about it.

Clergy ratings drop to lowest level ever; moral decline expected.

Throughout the country, churches find creative ways to serve their communities.

As churches experiment with preaching on video. What are we learning?

Church of the Resurrection Leawood, Kansas

College Church of Wheaton, Illinois