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How Jehovah’s Witnesses and Shunning Contributed to a Triple Murder-Suicide

The practice of turning former believers into outcasts is just cruel.

This Infectious Video of a Farmer Dancing In His Barn Is Going Mega-Viral

We're in awe of this man's moves—and his uplifting message.

Why we will no longer be a welcoming church

We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …

Blade publisher, aviation expert to wed Nov. 19

John Robinson Block, of Pittsburgh and Toledo, and Mary Fackler Schiavo, of Isle of Palms, S.C., and Pioneer, Ohio, have announced their wedding engagement. ...

8 Concerns That Church Members Seldom Tell Pastors

There are some concerns that are harder to bring up than others. Things like: We're concerned about your marriage.

Study Shows Public Health Benefits of Recreational Facilities on Urban Rivers

A new study finds that the cost of building urban river parkways and other recreational facilities is more than offset by the savings in public health costs, such as obesity.

Why the Word 'Recreational' Should Be Retired

Want to destigmatize marijuana? We can start by calling it what it really is.

Cult-like Practices at Word of Life Church

The recent beating death of a teenager may indicate religious abuse and cult-like practices.

How the Word “Pastoral” Has Been Distorted by Progressivists in the Church

How the Word “Pastoral” Has Been Distorted by Progressivists in the Church. In current ecclesiastical language, the word pastoral tends to gradually take on

Do you love the church but sometimes hate it? There’s a word for that feeling (and it can be...

The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan explained how it can be healthy to sometimes ‘hate’ what we truly love, including the church.

A Word, Or The Word Of God?

In the recent message titled “We Have the Mind of Christ,” we saw that in God, no one person has all the answers. So, how do we find the mind of Christ? How do we get a word from God?... (more)

What Does the Word ‘Church’ Mean? Ephesians 3:7

We use the word “church” over and over in the Christian life, but what exactly does the word really mean?

Marketing isn’t a dirty word in church: Why we should be comfortable ‘selling’ spirituality

Traditional Catholic networks have evaporated, and professional marketing of our faith is needed to fill the void.

How to Listen to God’s Word

Far from being a chore, reading God's Word should draw us closer to Him.

Learning To Read God's Word

PROVERBS 2:1-5 –1 My son, if you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, 2 making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart

How a Word Gets Into the Dictionary

Is the Bible truly God's Word?

Is the Bible truly God's Word? How can we know that the Bible is the Word of God?

Where Is the Word of God?

We live in a world filled with competing truth claims. Every day, we are bombarded with declarations that something is true and that something else is false....

What does God’s Word say?

“In any situation, think first, ‘What does the Word of God say about it?’” 8But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preac…