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One-on-One with Sam Chan on Evangelism in a Skeptical World
The essence of evangelism is the gospel message—true for all peoples, all places, and all times.
Sam Chan, a practicing medical doctor and a public evangelist with City Bible Forum in Sydney, Australia, recently wrote Evangelism in a Skeptical World: How to Make the Unbelievable News about...
December 31, 1969
Interview: Rosaria Butterfield: Christian Hospitality Is Radically Different from ‘Southern Hospitality’
It has nothing to do with entertainment—and everything to do with addressing the crisis of unbelief.
Before Rosaria Butterfield became a popular Christian author, she was a tenured professor at Syracuse University, a lesbian feminist fighting to advance the cause of LGBTQ equality, and an...
December 31, 1969
Sectarian Cinema: Oscars Highlight Muslim Defense of Persecuted Christians
Watu Wote joins other films attempting what African sermons cannot.
Two years ago, the heroic actions of some Kenyan Muslims brought their majority-Christian nation together. The Oscar-nominated film depiction of that heroism may do so again—if many people watch.
Watu Wote is a fictional...
December 31, 1969
Sectarian Cinema: Oscars Highlight Muslim Defense of Persecuted Christians
Watu Wote joins other films attempting what African sermons cannot.
Two years ago, the heroic actions of some Kenyan Muslims brought their majority-Christian nation together. The Oscar-nominated film depiction of that heroism may do so again—if many people watch.
Watu Wote is a fictional...
December 31, 1969
Rwanda Weeds the Church Plants
Thousands of churches closed in attempt to curb bad buildings—and bad preaching.
Authorities have closed more than 6,000 churches across Rwanda, including 714 in the capital city of Kigali, in the span of two months for failing to comply with health, safety, and noise...
December 31, 1969
The Church and Mental Health: What Do the Numbers Tell Us?
Why is it uniquely challenging for us to address issues often associated with mental illness?
Most of us know someone who is in counseling, on medication, or has even taken his or her own life as a result of a mental illness. There are many difficult issues for Christians to talk about, and...
December 31, 1969
Gleanings: May 2018
Important developments in the church and the world (as they appeared in our May issue).
Supreme Court hears pregnancy centers’ plight
The US Supreme Court will decide in June whether pregnancy resource centers in California must post notices advertising state-funded contraception and...
December 31, 1969
How to Become America’s Fastest-Growing Church? Think Like a Startup.
Cincinnati’s Crossroads uses entrepreneurial strategies for gospel ends.
The fastest-growing congregation in America is one you may never have heard of with a name you hear everywhere: Crossroads Church.
Crossroads are about as common as First Baptists among today’s non-denominational,...
December 31, 1969
My Son’s Down Syndrome Showed Me the Real Imago Dei
It didn’t look at all like I thought it did.
For the majority of my theologically trained life, my ideas of what it meant to bear the image of God were quite conventional—easy inheritances from systematic theologies or books. We can love because God is love. We have the capability to...
December 31, 1969
Jesus, Take the Control Wheel: Southwest Pilot Saw Flying as Ministry
Fellow Texas Baptists cheer on Tammie Jo Shults, who heroically landed Flight 1390 after engine failure.
BOERNE, Texas (BP)— When members of First Baptist Church in Boerne, Texas, heard recordings of radio transmissions from a Southwest Airlines pilot who made a harrowing emergency landing...
December 31, 1969
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