Last week, President Biden addressed Congress to stump for his latest proposal: The American Families Plan. If passed as is, the initiative would do the following: -Provide universal preschool for all three and four-year-olds -Offer two years of free community college to young adults -Cover childcare costs for families in poverty. -Set […]Read More

Why is Christianity growing in some countries but declining in others? For much of the 20th century, social scientists answered this question by appealing to the so-called secularization thesis: the theory that science, technology, and education would result in Christianity’s declining social influence. More recently, some scholars have suggested the cause is rather the accumulation […]Read More

When a mentor saw me struggling with worship in our fledging church plant, he handed me a copy of Marva Dawn’s Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship in this Urgent Time. I wondered what a Lutheran and a lover of historic worship practices would have to say to a congregation whose traditions […]Read More

Over the past year, the news has been enough to drive us to despair. Or prayer. Or both. As people have been bombarded with headlines about the global pandemic, civil unrest, natural disasters, and religious persecution, some ministry leaders and Christian media outlets have been offering resources to help believers pray through the news. Prior […]Read More

A number of ministry initiatives were either birthed or accelerated during this season. The following gives a sampling of some of the many responses we received. Eric Torrence (@EricTorrence83) and Jon (@JonWarren_TX) commended U nity Table, noting that it is a collaboration of churches in north Dallas. Started by One Community Church in Plano, Dr. […]Read More

Ways God Grows Us Through Loneliness             “As I sit here in a room filled with hundreds of other Believers, I couldn’t feel more alone. I feel invisible in a sea of faces.  Somehow, I feel very unseen. How did I get here? What did I do to deserve this level of loneliness? How will […]Read More

A Prayer to Be Brave Like JesusBy: Alisha Headley “If the world hated you, keep in mind that it hated me first.” – John 15:18 Most of our fears come from the enemy. He loves to instill fear into us so we will stay stuck, unable to move forward in the promises God has for us. […]Read More

As a TV news reporter and a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) pastor, Loran Mann tried to keep his two jobs separate. And that worked. Mostly. But once in the 1980s, he was first to the scene of a standoff where an armed fugitive on the run after murdering his wife was cornered by […]Read More

20 Truths from Eugene Cho and Samira Izadi Page’s latest release, ‘No Longer Strangers.’ 1. "The editors of this volume and the contributors believe wholeheartedly that evangelism is a necessary and beautiful part of our discipleship. However, while the book affirms the important commitment of evangelism, we highlight the dangers when North American Christians, in […]Read More

Related To Further Religious Freedom Among Muslims, Can Women Succeed Where Men Have Not? Films, courses, and dialogue groups invite—rather than confront—Islamic societies toward greater openness. But will accompanying “intersectionality” undercut support? Jayson Casper Trending Ravi Zacharias Hid Hundreds of Pictures of Women, Abuse […]Read More