Asian Students Seek Unity in Christ

Every three years InterVarsity Christian Fellowship sponsors the Urbana Conference, a gathering that challenges university students to get involved in ...

How Those Outside the Church View Those Within

In their book UnChristian, author David Kinnaman highlights a number of troubling statistics from an extensive study by the Barna Research Group of those ...

The Parade Nobody Gets to Watch

In his book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller describes a New Year's Day parade held in San Diego. But this was no ordinary parade. This ...

Teenager Distances Himself from Family at Embarrassing Moment

When I was 13, my dad had the brilliant idea to take sailing lessons. I'm not sure where this idea came from. Our only previous sailing experience had ...

Regular Attenders of Worship Services More Likely to Be Generous

An international Gallup poll shows that adherents of all the major world religions who regularly attend religious services (attenders) have higher rates ...

Missionaries Learn Valuable Lesson in Language School

Anglican priest and author Michael Green shares the following story to remind us of the impact of our actions long before our words:

I read about a missionary ...

Crying Out for "Those Nobody Wants"

The Tuesday night prayer meeting at Brooklyn Tabernacle felt like skydiving into a tornado, exhausting and exhilarating all at once. I'd read about the ...

A Christian Neighbor's Bad Testimony

Not long after we moved [into our first house in California], my wife, Janie, and I picked up on the tension between a couple of neighbors. One was a ...

How to Pray in an Economic Crisis

During one of the most volatile periods of the current economic crisis—a week in which global stock markets declined by $7 trillion—Philip ...

Church Doesn't Live Up to Its Sign

Chris Heuertz is the international director of Word Made Flesh, an organization that helps the world's poor. In his book Simple Christianity, Heuertz ...