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Daniel KunkelFormationChurch

The Secret Place

For many churches, ministry now consists of exposure—podcast or perish—leaders feel obligated to maintain an online presence and publish their church’s conversion rate, baptism ratio, average weekly attendance, and annual earnings. After all, how are they to hear without Mailchimp?

Jake MeadorChurch

A Story to Remember This Week at General Assembly

Being a genuinely national denomination creates challenges no one else faces. But the rewards are more than worth it.

Joey SherrardChurch

Understanding the Evangelical Presbyterian Church's Unique Calling

The EPC can navigate the controversies she is currently debating if she remains true to her roots as an old school/new side presbyterian church.

Jake MeadorChurch

Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

Cameron ShafferChurchBook Reviews

The Church: One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic

Myles Werntz’s Contesting the Body of Christ: Ecclesiology’s Revolutionary Century is a refreshing and welcome contribution to ecclesiological discussions.

Haley IsbellChurchEducation

The Other Side of Seminary

The banal work of submitting invoices and managing calendars is easy to forget, but our institutions can't function without people who do that work well.

Erik CoonceBook ReviewsChurch

A Scrapbook of Pastoral Care

What ought to occupy a pastor’s time? Long-time pastor Reuben Bredenhof attempts to address that question in his book 'The Ministry of Small Things.'

Dave StrunkChurch

How to Help Include Children's Ministry Volunteers in Worship

Effective church ministry exists on a spectrum of the ideal on one side and ‘what people will actually participate in’ on the other side.

Michael PorterChurchHealth & MedicineFormation

The Church, the Medical Profession, and Applied Ethics

Because we have lost the idea of medicine as a profession we have lost a clear idea of what medicine is actually for.

Nadya WilliamsFamilyChurch

Complementarianism and the Dignity of Women

The idea that men and women are different was obvious to the ancient world. That they were different yet equal was not.

Jared KennedyChurchFormation

Keep the Christian Calendar, but Keep It Under the Word

The church calendar can be a powerful tool for cultivating piety individually and ecclesially, but it must be kept beneath the Word to do its work best.

Hayden NesbitChurchFormation

The Foolish Divine Order of the Church

Ours is a body with aches and pains, strains and breaks. Confession will painfully set our bones. Such is the foolish divine order of the body of Christ.