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 ...

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 ...

Pastor Discovers Meaningful Way to Help Others in Pain

In an interview about his book The Folly of Prayer (IVP, 2009), author and pastor Matt Woodley shared a story about his friend Theresa. Theresa was experiencing ...

The Church's Responsibility to Military Officers Suffering from PTSD

In a 2009 article for Christianity Today magazine, author Jocelyn Green gave readers a glimpse into the lives of different military officers suffering ...

Retired Japanese Detective Devotes Himself to Helping Suicidal Men and Women

In a 2009 article in Time magazine, writer Coco Masters shared a startling statistic: one in five Japanese men and women have seriously considered taking ...

Reading About Outreach Versus Doing Outreach

Dan Kimball writes in an article titled, "Do It, Don't Blog It”:

A few Sundays ago, I was heading home after preaching three times. I was ...

When Technology Replaces Community

Stanley Hauerwas and Jean Vanier write in “Living Gently in a Violent World”:

Once when I was at the University of Notre Dame we had an extraordinary ...

Harvard Studies Happiness

In 1937, a researcher at Harvard University began a study (originally named The Harvard Study of Adult Development) on what factors contribute to human ...