The disciple is one who refuses “the luxury of the onlooker,” but chooses, instead, the role of accomplice in the consecrated conspiracy of life against the reign of death.

The response of organised Christianity to events in Syria has been every bit as confused and ideologically driven as the response of most other observers.

It’s not merely God’s dream that we love and serve each other, but that we also accept our own belovedness. Footwashing, then, is sacramental, revealing God’s desire for creation to care and be cared for.

What began as an effort at interreligious and historical understanding morphed into a tradition for many churches’ Holy Week celebrations, so that in some settings the Seder has become a form of Christian worship.

“Faith-based films” made by “faith-based filmmakers” may make a handsome living marketing that way, but it will necessarily shut down attempts to reach outside of the faith community.

Maria Swearingen and her wife, Sally Sarratt will be putting their skills to good use in their new roles as co-senior pastors of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington.

In a new memoir Macy Halford considers the impact that Oswald Chambers’ book has had on her, and her experience in the disparate worlds of the New Yorker magazine and her Southern Baptist background and belief.

Within 2o years, the number of Muslim babies being born is expected to surpass Christian births — though there will still be more Christians in the world.

I didn’t know about the saints until my thirties but I came by my ignorance honestly. As an Evangelical we didn’t talk about the saints.  

Vancouver pastor: How the church can model civil discourse amid controversy.

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It can be difficult to lift a passage from its context 2,000 or more years removed and wield it appropriately.