Church Bitterness

Dennis Fletcher

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Why Men Still Hate Going to Church

Another Path of Jesus

Out of the Darkness: DVD Documentary (Anteroom Pictures)

What Happened to Singles Ministry?

Adam Stadtmiller

Coming Clean

Liturgy with Bite?

Prophet in the Pulpit

Brandon O'Brien

The New Monk Warriors

For the City: Proclaiming and Living Out the Gospel (Zondervan, 2011) By Darrin Patrick & Matt Carter with Joel A. Lindsey

Emotional Stability

An interview with Peter Scazzero

Coming Down the Mountain

The Big Reveal

Guy Conn, as told to Paul Pastor

Why Did a Lesbian Couple Choose Our Church?

Redeeming Church Conflicts: Turning Crisis into Compassion and Care (Baker, 2012) Tara Barthel and David C. Edling

Word? Indeed!

How to Spot a Transformed Christian

Gordon MacDonald

Crafting a Rule of Life: An Invitation to the Well-Ordered Way (IVP, 2012) Stephen A. Macchia

Getting Psyched to Preach

How to Score a Sabbatical

Greg Asimakoupoulos

How to Knock Over a 7-11: And Other Ministry Training (Cheshire, 2011) Michael Cheshire

4 Conversation Skills that Transform

Kevin A. Miller

You Gotta Be There

Marshall Shelley

A Life to Die For …

A Bigger Toolbox

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Budgets

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Sneaking Out

Dennis Fletcher

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Youth Pastor Needs

Dennis Fletcher

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Virtual Confession

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Curse the Darkness

Dennis Fletcher

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Online Anger

Sandy Silverthorne

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20% of Church Members Do 80% of the Work

Dennis Fletcher

Our Latest

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Wire Story

Top ACNA Leader Faces Sexual Harassment Allegations

Kathryn Post – Religion News Service

Following a string of scandals, the accusations against Archbishop Steve Wood come amid plans for the denomination to overhaul its abuse response.

What if my church won't let me take Communion?

The Russell Moore Show

Listener Question: Should Communion Be Open to All Believers?

Russell takes a listener’s question about church membership and the Communion table.

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Anti-Fragile Faith in Chaotic Times

Slow Theology highlights how a long obedience in the same direction grows.

A mosque and a church damaged by bombings in Syria.

Will There Ever Be Peace in the Middle East?

An explainer on sectarianism, and how it keeps the region divided.

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Being Human

Spiritual Growth and Emotional Resilience with Carla Harding, Brian Heasley & Alicia Britt Chole

Unlocking prayer, presence, and relational wisdom

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The Bulletin

Young Republican Texts, Anglican Split, and George Santos Released

Mike Cosper, Clarissa Moll, Russell Moore

Controversial Republican texts, Anglican Communion splits, and George Santos’s sentence is commuted.

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Review

Do Evangelical Political Errors Rise to the Level of Heresy?

Stephen O. Presley

A Lutheran pastor identifies five false teachings that threaten to corrupt the church’s public witness.

A 1957 Christianity Today magazine and a photo of a captured Soviet tank in Hungary.

Highlights and Lowlights of 1957

In its first full year of publication, CT looked at Civil Rights, Cold War satellites, artificial insemination, and carefully planned evangelism.