The Book of Revelation was written by John from exile on the island of Patmos to churches enduring real persecution under a hostile empire. It’s easy to assume a book so full of dramatic imagery must be a puzzle to solve or a timeline to decode. But Revelation names its
How to Discover and Capitalize On Your Church’s Unique Voice If you’re copying another church, you’re not being the church God called you to be. And the kingdom of God is poorer for not having your voice in it. Small churches try to imitate larger churches, even cathedrals, backward-looking churches
I first met Wendell Berry—who died this August—on a farm east of Louisville, Kentucky. His daughter and then son-in-law had replanted former tobacco fields with grapes from which they made a respectable variety of wines. My wife and I drove from Cincinnati one Saturday evening to attend an outdoor dinner
That the Church forms a collective body, which can be like the real body of Christ; that this body, like any particular body, is one by its life and multiple by its parts and by its organs, and thus by its actions, its functions, its operations; that baptism accomplishes the
Good News Re-visted: Is Evangelism Relevant? June 1967 By Leighton Ford To many modern observers, evangelism seems like an antique chair in a museum: a curious relic of the past and an interesting phenomenon for study, but not to be sat on, not fit to bear the weight of
Welcome back to Steeple People! Hosts Amy Jo Gerardier and Michelle Dyer are kicking off season two with a couple whose story starts with a simple, honest question: What if the Bible is actually true? Buck and Laura Thompson moved to Brentwood, Tennessee, 11 years ago from the Philadelphia suburbs,
Welcome to Sundays at All Hallows. This Sunday, September 20, 2026, is the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. Tuesday, September 22, is the Autumn Equinox and the first day of Fall. It is also Hobbit Day, a holiday declared by the American Tolkien Society in 1978 and observed by fans of