By Melinda Bouma A few years ago, while researching how to continue to improve the readability and beauty of the Bibles we publish, I came across this presentation that Mark Ward made to his church...
Telling the uncomfortable story of “desolate” Tamar positions us to show a kind of compassion King David didn’t. For the past year, I’ve been teaching the Book of Samuel to a group of women at...
When it seems the whole world suffers, animals are still offering praise. There’s no shortage of ugliness in our world. A quick scan of today’s environmental headlines reveals any number of horrors: burnt-out Californian forests,...
Analysis: The bigger factor behind the SBC’s decline isn’t the struggle to gain new converts; it’s keeping their own. By now, Southern Baptists recognize that their movement is in a decline that shows no signs...
Four leaders share their vision for what demonstrating pro-life convictions really looks like. The recent debates over anti-abortion legislation advancing in states like Alabama, Missouri, and Georgia—some of the strictest bans in the country, seen...
A US missions agency is changing the way Spain’s tech hub engages its influx of migrants. An entrepreneurial hub on the coast of southern Spain houses more than 600 global companies in shiny, modern buildings,...
While giving is up, membership, baptism, and church numbers continued to drop in 2018. A boost in giving—up to $11.8 billion total—and major church growth in Texas was not enough to fend off more than...
Here are 7 helpful pre-marital resources provided by my audience on Twitter. I haven’t officiated a wedding in over a decade—no, scratch that, maybe more. But I’ve just committed to performing one. Look out, newlyweds!...
Holiness is a hard challenge. The key is surrender, not striving. I’ve been called an overachiever. In elementary school, I considered a B-plus an abject failure, and I was updating my résumé before most kids...
Mike Riddering died in the attack that brought about a new era of terrorism in the West African country. Now his relatives are working to bring about revival. Burkina Faso used to be one of...
