“Real Church” Michael Adam Beck, coauthor of Fresh Expressions of the Rural Church, explains how the faith communities formed using the Fresh expressions approach can connect with people that the conventional church cannot. The formation of micro-churches meeting in non-traditional venues is a possible option for Anglicans and Methodists who
In 1937 a series of sexual abuse cases in Catholic institutions rocked Germany. The Nazis cleverly used these trials for their propaganda. Goebbel’s propaganda machinery attempted to portray the entire Catholic clergy as either homosexual (then still a criminal offense) or pedophiles or as financially hostile to the state, instrumentalizing
7 Signs Your Church Will Never Change Here are 7 signs your church is never going to change. 13 Signs Your Church Is Dying Here are 13 signs of a dying church every church leader should look out for – in their churches and in their hearts. Americans placing more
Eight Ways Any Church Can Get the Attention of the Neighborhood God’s mission travels in one vehicle: the church. In the same way that different kinds of vehicles travel our roadways, many different churches share the good news message. No congregation has a corner on the Kingdom, and every Bible-believing
World Vision for the Church in Crisis Good News Archive: What follows is condensed from a historic address by Dr. E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) to the 1970 Good News Convocation in Dallas. As Christians we have an Eternal Person and an unshakeable Kingdom – the essence of reality and our
The Presbyterian Church in America Has an Abuse Crisis Too Women thought the PCA, with its robust system of governance, might provide some accountability. They found that was not the case. Love Where You Live: Evangelism in Disorienting Times …it would be a mistake to view the decline of cultural
Church history is persistently a contentious affair, especially when it comes to debates about doctrine. From the Gnostics to the Modernists, these disputes get a lot of coverage in various histories of the Church. While our times have their own doctrinal disputes, we are faced with a pastoral crisis more
All of the official documentation of the Church agrees that virginity or celibacy, whether embraced as one of the evangelical counsels vowed by consecrated religious, or as part and parcel of the vocation to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic communion, carries a special “sign” value. Virginity or celibacy is