The campus revivals nobody planned — and what changed
From Asbury to a long quiet tail of imitators, a generation of college students is gathering in chapels and dining halls without a denominational organizer in sight.
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All articles →Faith: what is actually at stake in Holy Week
A short meditation on why the church year keeps insisting on these eight days, written for the person who has heard the story their whole life and not for a minute too long.
Mission: the short-term trip is dead. What replaced it might be better.
Five years after the pandemic ended most short-term overseas mission programming, the work has reorganized — toward longer stays, deeper local partnership, and a smaller footprint.
Worship: why congregations are quietly returning to hymns
After three decades of contemporary worship dominance, a measurable corner of the evangelical church is reintroducing four-part hymns. The reasons are not what you'd expect.
Family: the Christian families adopting Sabbath as a screen-time discipline
A growing number of households are using the historic Sabbath as a 24-hour boundary against the always-on home. The framing matters as much as the practice.
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