What Young Adults Look for in a Church Many of the frustrations surrounding our failure to reach young adults are less about them and more about the church. Rick Warren lists 10 action steps through the book of Acts to help church leaders ‘finish their race’ In his 54th year
Pope Francis calls politics “a lofty vocation and one of the highest forms of charity, inasmuch as it seeks the common good” (Evangelii Gaudium, §205). Indeed, it is “the field of charity at its most vast” (Fratelli Tutti,§180, quoting Pius XI). “If someone helps an elderly person cross a river,
For the first-time reader of In Search of Lost Time, Proust’s sinuous sentences can feel convoluted and even taxing, demanding—without due cause—such a sustained attention that editions of Proust’s masterpiece released “for the modern reader” should be equipped with a medicinal preface that contains a filled prescription for Ritalin. This is
Today’s Reading: Read Nehemiah 1-4 Grab some Lincoln Logs or your favorite set of blocks and work together as a family to build a walled city. After you build it, choose someone to destroy it. Work together to build back the wall that was destroyed. Remember, work together as a
Responding to the Lausanne Seoul Statement: We Need a Greater Focus on Evangelism’s Place in the Holistic Mission Ed Stetzer explains why he believes that the Seoul Statement needs a greater call to prioritize evangelism. Related Article: Lausanne Daily Dispatch: Powerful Worship and a New Seoul Statement Lausanne amends Seoul
One of the ways to gain clarity about a given thing is to explore not simply what that thing is, but rather to investigate precisely what it is not. When a scientist, for example, wonders what is behind a given effect, it can be an incredibly fruitful exercise to begin
Editor’s Note: We know that our predominantly Latter-day Saint audience is already aware that what is being inferred about the Church by Hulu’s ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ is false, but we encourage you to share this article as a way to clarify to your friends and family that
Today’s Reading: Read Esther 1-5 If you were the King or Queen for the day, what would you do? Take turns sharing with your family what your day would look like if you were chosen to be royalty! Esther was one of God’s chosen people, the Israelites, who did not