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Join this week's "Church Now" conversation with Mike Goheen on Newbigin's Missionary Ecclesiology.
A recent Bible Translation invites everyone to read the New Testament with First Nation eyes.
Join this conversation on the lies you've been taught and how to recover what God intended.
The idea is simple: U.S. history is more complex than many of us thought or were taught. Here are four books that speak to this complexity.
Don't miss this upcoming conversation (Sept. 16 at 11 am ET) with Susan Beaumont. The first 25 pastors to register receive a free copy of her book!
As you listen to podcasts this summer, there's one you won't want to miss: Christianity Today's "The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill."
Wherever you are in your church's life, Vibrant Congregations can assist you in discerning your path in ministry and mission.
Our churches have treasured traditions. How do we take those traditions into the 21st century?
In this post, we go deeper into helping congregations create a "Life Together" picture.
What does life together look like in your congregation? Can members describe it? Creating a "Life Together" picture is one way to help them know.
Here are three podcasts that strengthen our ministry and carry the extraordinary diversity of God’s masterpiece.
This conversation will be helpful to pastors and leaders who want to engage a world that doesn't want to engage the church.
This prayer can help us keep our focus on our neighbor.
In Charles Olson's book, Transforming Church Boards into Communities of Spiritual Leaders, he asks: what if there is another way of looking at the work of the church council?
Mark Noll’s powerful and insightful book The Civil War as a Theological Crisis resonates with struggles of our day.
A Prayer for God's work in us to make us one, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are one.
Taking words from James Baldwin, Robert P. Jones' new book holds that white Christians have been white too long.
At the beginning of COVID-19, Andy Crouch wrote about churches preparing for a blizzard, winter, and a mini ice age. Here's a tool to help churches be ready.
In the conversation about the church health, 22 key questions can provide lots of good information.
Aimee Byrd's recent book on recovering from Biblical manhood and womanhood takes on gender stereotypes in the church.
Kristin Kobes Du Mez's book Jesus and John Wayne helps evangelicals to see their family story.
N.T. Wright is less concerned about the "why" of the Pandemic and more concerned about the "what" of the Christian response.
In the first of the Church Now conversations, Ed Stetzer spoke about the church’s response to COVID-19 and the killing of George Floyd.