By Kelly Wilson
Church attendance is in decline. This has given birth to many articles and think pieces exploring why churches are shrinking, and has prompted many churches to increase their efforts at evang... Read More...
By Samuel Cripps
I helped lead a Bible study this week with six young men, ages 17-30. As a group, we dissected the parables of the Mustard Seed and of the Sower found in Matthew 13. Those passages prompted ... Read More...
By Samuel Cripps
Prior to beginning my road to the ordained ministry I worked in software and web design. I had some good luck with it, but soon enough the call to ministry became too strong and I walked away from the industry almost completely. But it wasn... Read More...
Gospel Witness Through the Ages
A History of Evangelism
By David M. Gustafson
Eerdmans, pp. 471, $39.99
Reviewed by Grant LeMarquand
Years ago, when I was a theological student in Montreal, our parish ... Read More...
By George Sumner
This reflection is really meant as advice for the Episcopal Church. It may make it more likely that I can be heard if I make it clear, here at the outset, that my idea is equally applicable ... Read More...
By Mark Edington
Whatever accounts for our character and institutions will also account for our values, which themselves belong to, and are effective and intelligible at, only their own specific stage in human history.
— Isaiah Berlin, “The Philosophy of Gia... Read More...
By Cole Hartin
I wish I had read Martin Thornton’s Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation eight years ago, before I started working in parish ministry. Thornton (1915-86) was a priest of the Oratory of the Good ... Read More...
By Muthuraj Swamy
The phrase “World Christianity” is relatively a new expression to describe Christianity’s presence and growth, but the idea that Christianity is a world religion has always been present in ... Read More...