In the ’80s and ’90s, CCM Was a Big, Big Market
Recent histories, documentaries, and devotionals prompt fans to look back—and perhaps learn some lessons—from the genre…
Recent histories, documentaries, and devotionals prompt fans to look back—and perhaps learn some lessons—from the genre…
How do you decide what should be normal in a secularized, fragmented society? The destruction of America’s political …
When the CCM business model faltered, it gave way to what sells even better: politics and fearmongering. This piece w…
Self-help books are wildly popular, including among Christians. But can they keep their promise to improve us? H eave…
How their disaffiliation stands to have a bigger impact on their communities and why leaders are hopeful they’ll come b…
Cutting off “toxic” people is social media’s go-to mental health advice. But Jesus commands us to seek conversation and…
Leaders believe Christ still offers the answers that growing numbers of “nones” are looking for, even if religious bagg…
Being a “strong Black woman” was my badge of honor, until it almost killed me. There are many issues of pressing conc…
The popular pastor’s latest works inhabit a fruitful tension between inheriting church tradition and rebuilding it for …
Caesar boasted of thousands of civilian deaths. Christianity is the reason we mourn even one. When he published his s…
Brad Wilcox’s Get Married debunks misguided conventional wisdom and offers both challenge and hope to Christian single…
The hope and anxiety inherent in Jesus' last passover feast C an you remember what you ate yesterday? Maybe you h…
Ash Wednesday breaks down our illusion of invincibility E very year around Ash Wednesday, a hillside near our home in…
Learning to have a quiet hope in the midst of heartache T his year, I’m learning to have a quiet hope. My eight-year-…
A pastor offers practical advice for the top three hurdles of church small groups: childcare, commitment, and over-talk…
How a tech glitch ruined hundreds of lives … and what the Church of England is learning in the aftermath. In recent w…
The author, musician, and husband of podcaster Jamie Ivey showed “a very clear pattern of predatory manipulation” in me…
The Canadian pastor’s influential Bible study sold 8 million copies and pointed readers to trust God’s plan. Henry Bl…
Multiple blazes torched at least eight evangelical churches, as pastors grieve and bury the dead. This January marked…
Angry Christians require angry songs—or better yet, angry psalms. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newslet…