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The start of football (and fantasy football) season has me skittery in stomach and mind this week, but not nearly as much as the idea that New Orleans could potentially be evacuated and underwater again.

“We’re more popular than Jesus now.” These words of John Lennon, published on this day in 1966, have become a famous—or infamous—part of cultural history.

God rains down grace on all mankind. He gave us the beauty and wonders of nature that we see each and every day. He gives us near misses when accidents are heading our way. He often brings us the right thing just in time. And He also gave us an...

Ambiguous loss, with no defined endpoint, is complicated to navigate. Churches can unknowingly marginalize those experiencing this loss, because they don't fit among those grieving death or celebrating life. Here's how churches can step up.

Dr. Winfield Bevins of Asbury Theological Seminary takes the Augustinian view of the liturgy and answers the question, "Why are so many young adults turning or returning to the liturgy in our time?" Dr. Bevins puts the question like this:

You've probably heard the United Methodist Church is meeting this weekend in St. Louis, and that it has something to do with sexuality and a possible schism...

I've spent all my life hungry, but now there's a different hunger to take in the Word of God.

There’s a reason you can’t name the person who recently won the largest Mega Millions jackpot in US history: she doesn’t want you to.

Sometimes it’s a cross of human excrement smeared on a church wall, with stolen Communion hosts stuck at the four corners. Other times, a statue of the Virgin Mary lies shattered on the floor.

Something I pray on a regular basis is that God will give me a keen awareness of the enemy’s plans and schemes against me.

What would a set of New Year’s resolutions look like for you and your church, your role as a leader, or simply as someone who wants to live a life of strategic Kingdom investment? And specifically, what if they came from the Bible?

When you’re in London, Düsseldorf, Germany, is 357 miles to the east. Edinburgh, Scotland, is 403 miles to the north. If you’re flying to Düsseldorf, you’d not expect your airplane to land in Edinburgh. But that’s just what happened Monday.

. It seems like a lifetime, and yet I remember it as if it was yesterday. So much happened in that moment of surrender, a moment that changed the entire trajectory of my life.

Joseph really got it. He saw the big picture.

Kodi Lee played the piano and sang on America’s Got Talent when it premiered Tuesday night. The twenty-two-year-old is blind and autistic, yet he was so amazing that he received a standing ovation from the judges and a “golden buzzer” sending him...

The Ascended Christ said to the church at Laodicea, “You say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing–but you do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." Reality is often far different from what we want...

When the Rev. Emmy Kegler heard her friend Rachel Held Evans had died earlier this month after a sudden illness, she offered a prayer. Then Kegler got together with other friends who had known Evans, a popular progressive Christian writer and...