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6 ways any church can reach young adults
The news about young adults and churches is often discouraging. But a study of more than 11,000 congregations shows that churches of almost any size can take practical steps to reach them.

Unanswered prayer isn't proof of weak faith
When our prayers go unanswered, we often search for what went wrong: weak faith, hidden sin, doubt. But like Job’s friends, we risk mistaking our grasp of God’s justice for knowledge of His purposes, and we add to the burden of people already suffering.

When forgiveness feels like the problem, not the solution
Telling a hurting person to forgive can sound less like an invitation to freedom and more like a demand to ignore their pain. The problem may not be forgiveness itself, but how we’ve come to understand it.

Holy Post swings at Christian Post on Christian nationalism, but misses
When The Holy Post highlighted my article on Christian nationalism, it presented it as proof that conservative Christian publications are finally willing to criticize the Right. There’s one problem: The Christian Post has been publishing that criticism for years.

Christa Pike survived her execution. The double standard no one is talking about
When Tennessee’s execution of Christa Pike failed, she was rushed to the hospital for life-saving care, and the nation erupted in debate. But for babies who survive abortion, there’s no outrage, no protest, and often no care at all.

Pro-life infighting helps no preborn child
A preborn child’s right to live should never depend on whether that child is wanted in the moment.

Dear Christian creators, use metrics without serving them
Christian creators are surrounded by numbers. Those numbers can help us communicate better, or they can quietly become a spiritual scoreboard.

I spent 21 days all alone with no phone. It nearly broke me
No phone. No books. No internet. Almost no human contact. For 21 days, John Mark Comer sat alone in a cabin above Puget Sound and discovered what he’d been running from.

Here’s how to fight city hall
They say you can’t fight city hall. A homeschool family in Fremont, Nebraska, just proved otherwise.

NAR critics are right, but they’re missing the real problem
Accusations about the “New Apostolic Reformation” have gone viral on Christian podcasts, ranging from unchecked authority to cult-like control. Writing from inside the movement, the author argues that many of these criticisms are valid but too narrowly focused. The deeper problem is a church model that new titles never reformed.

























