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Esther's story would be infuriating if it wasn't so over-the-top ridiculous.

Iglesia Hispana Emanuel has about 100 members. José Guillermo Salamea is teaching some 40 of them how to play an instrument.

A lack of ID caused problems for immigrants—as well as for the police who encountered them. Through a series of dialogues, a solution emerged.

British Columbia's church attendance rate is lower than Canada's, and Vancouver's is lower still. Yet vibrant things are happening in the city.

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.

America is living stormy Monday while the pulpit is preaching happy Sunday. Can we recover a blues sensibility?

Could the Spirit's love be poured into the hearts of people untouched by the incarnation? Could non-Christians be lovers of the only God there is?

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.

"Everybody thinks the church stopped supporting science with Galileo. That's a myth tied up in the politics of the 19th century."