The Power of an Aptly Spoken Word

About forty pastors and denominational leaders in Michigan squeezed into a relatively small conference room to discuss urgent and somewhat controversial ...

New Year's Resolutions and the Importance of Community

With a new year just around the corner, most of us are busy scribbling down resolutions. We desire radical change in the way we look, the way we behave, ...

Are Your Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?

In a New York Times magazine article, Hal Niedzviecki reflected on social media sites—specifically, Facebook. Soon after starting a Facebook account, ...

God Speaks Through Unlikely Person

Henri Nouwen was a priest and a brilliant teacher at places like Harvard and Yale. Feeling led by God, he spent the last decade of his life living in ...

Man Discovers Co-worker Is His Brother

They worked together every day at the furniture delivery company and didn't know. Gary would lift one end of the couch and Randy the other. People ...

Flawed People Drive Author Back to the Church, Not Away

Where human frailty once served as a reason for me to withdraw from the church, with its unruly and divergent congregants, this is now what compels me ...

Celebrating the Community Contributions of Believers

Andy Crouch writes in an article titled "Teaching People to Flourish”:

I lived in Boston in the 1980s, and I spoke with a pastor of a major ...

Perfect Fear Casting Out Love

Perfect love may cast out fear, but fear is remarkably potent in casting out love.

—P. D. James, English author (1920- )

Shane Hipps on the Paradox of the Electronic Age

Shane Hipps writes in “Flickering Pixels”:

I have two friends who are best friends. Each was the best man in the other's wedding. They ...

The Importance of Identifying Relational Issues

The Thing in the Bushes is a book about corporate blind spots. Authors Kevin Graham Ford and James D. Osterhaus point out that most leaders of companies ...