By G. Jeffrey MacDonald From Faith and Leadership Editor’s note: Research for this story was funded by The BTS Center, a Maine-based think tank focused on 21st-century faith communities. It included visits to nearly two dozen vital mainline congregations that have...
From CTPastors How to follow Jesus while dodging bullets. Interview with John Crosby As a Christian leader, people’s disapproval can make you defensive, angry—and if you go about it the right way, spiritually mature. We asked John Crosby, pastor of Christ Presbyterian...
By Brie Loskota The following was edited from Brie Loskota’s opening remarks at Reimagining Religion: A Conversation about the Future of Religion, held at University of Southern California on February 9, 2017. We are in a period of flux, a period of rapid and...
From Christianity Today By Karl Vaters Jesus never bored people with the gospel. But entertainment was never the point. Truth was the point. And truth is never boring. I don’t go to church to be entertained. I also don’t go to church to be bored. I go to...
From Perspectives By David Brubaker In the last 50 years, much of our new understanding of congregational life emerged from the social sciences, while less attention has been given to the spirituality of congregations and their leaders. Social science has contributed...
