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Rhys LavertyWorkChurchEconomics and Business

Why Pastors Should Get a Family Wage

What is an appropriate wage for pastors? Rhys Laverty makes the case for a wage sufficient to support not just an individual, but a household.

Ross ByrdCultureChurch

A Parish Manifesto

The most effective evangelistic message for our day may not be 'you are accepted as you are' but rather 'be holy, as God your Father is holy.'

Patrick MillerChurchCulture WarEvangelism

What Happened When My Church Encountered Negative World

Christian love and showing grace to our enemies isn't a 'strategy' that can go out of date. It's simply what biblical fidelity requires.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

American Evangelicalism as a Controversy Generator Machine

The most significant thing about the Alistair Begg affair isn't Begg himself or his advice, but how the affair highlights the weakness of evangelicalism.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

Shepherds are not Technicians

The dominant imaginative models for pastoral ministry in evangelicalism are fundamentally broken.

James WoodTheologyChurchHistory/Church History

Warfield Was Wrong

Calvin, at least, would object to Warfield's characterization of the Reformation as Augustine's soteriology set against Augustine's ecclesiology.

G. Connor SalterSinChurchSexuality

The Problematic Inklings

A number of the much loved Inklings dealt with sins that today might lead to their cancelation. How might that change the way we read them?

Rachel Roth AldhizerChurchFormation

The Last Words We Need to Hear: An All Saints Day Meditation

Tim Keller's final words remind us of the Gospel as we mark this All Saints Day.

Jake MeadorChurchEvangelicalism

What Makes a "New Mainline"?: A Reformation Day Reflection

A new mainline will not be able to be made from the existing mainline or Rome or 'evangelicalism'; it will only come about through new partnerships.

Kevin BrownChurchFormation

The Call to John 17 Unity

The call to Christian unity given to us by Christ in John 17 is not conditional upon our circumstances or political context.

Jake MeadorChurch

The Mainline We Need

We don't need a recapitulation of the 1950s Mainline of America's third republic, but a different sort of mainline that can thrive in her fourth republic.

Jake MeadorChurch

Mega Churches and Reformed Catholicity

The loss of the Baby Boomers and mass dechurching will give megachurches an even larger role in the American church. What should they do with that power?