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What has made this experiment in marriage and ministry work, both for the congregation and for us?

Brian McLaren, Sara Miles, Chris Wiman, and others make their selections.

In response to our request for essays on song, we received many compelling reflections. Here is a selection.

Our fall books issue includes scholars' recommendations of the best recently published books in New Testament, global Christianity and American religious history, and practical theology.

We asked college and seminary professors to write about one of their favorites.

Our fall books issue's reviews include Anthony B. Robinson on Fleming Rutledge, Sarah Morice Brubaker on Stanley Hauerwas, Valerie Weaver-Zercher on Nadia Bolz-Weber, and more.

The Upper Salween Valley is an inhospitable, sparsely populated place. It may seem like an unlikely place for a Christian community to thrive.

Christians didn’t baptize Aldo Leopold’s land ethic after the fact. They got there years before his work.

A memoir becomes explicitly Christian when it derives its literary power from the power of the gospel. It doesn't preach, it shows.

The death penalty is undergoing a welcome decline in the U.S. But the policy that's replacing it isn't much better.

A recent Templeton Foundation program sought to cultivate local conversation on science and faith. We asked some pastors to describe their experience.

The geophysicist's talk had none of the triumphalism of efforts to prove God exists. It was the testimony of experience—and it was unequivocal doxology.

Some churches have well-developed processes of assessment, support, and goal setting. Others have no review mechanism whatsoever.

October 31, 2017 draws near. How should we mark it, especially those of us who care about Christian unity?

Perhaps the real lack of faith in modern society comes down to a lack of reverence for the people around us.

In response to our request for essays on reversal, we received many compelling reflections. Here is a selection.

Modern cosmology indicates that the universe cannot have been created without any constraints. So where do we find the elusive nihilo?

Decades ago, when a need arose at a church in rural Kansas, the finance chair would ask, "Who'll give 25 dollars?" Today, we have Kickstarter.

"What's going on is a nation-building process. It's similar to what happened at the end of World War I, when major empires were destroyed."

Our spring books issue's reviews include Amy Frykholm on Toni Morrison, Jason Byassee on Richard Hays, Katherine Willis Pershey on Lauren Winner, and more.