
First Person: Reasons why marriage is declining
Young American adults are eschewing marriage at alarming rates. A recent report in World included this Census Bureau generated data: only

Church sees baptisms, discipleship shine from reviving work in local jails
The pastoral staff of Beacon Hill Baptist Church is four weeks into a weekly Bible study they lead at Pulaski County Detention Center. Eleven men — many of whom are new believers — have already been baptized.

First person: Working through seasons of change
Nothing is scarier than change. Well, maybe spiders are scarier, but I digress.

‘Retraumatized’: Syrians seeking hope after earthquake, decades of desperation
For Syrians, the world has been crumbling for years, and this February’s earthquake added mounds to the existing literal and

Memories of closed theme park open ‘floodgates’ for music minister
When Joseph Hudson was called as minister of music at First Baptist Church in Cleveland, South Carolina, in 2010, he wanted to get to know the members of his new congregation.

‘On a Wing and a Prayer’ spotlights miracle in the air
Doug White didn’t have time to ponder his dire situation when the pilot of his small plane died midflight in

Recovering the vanishing practice of Christian hospitality
Christian hospitality is an overlooked spiritual discipline, George Barna writes in a recent daily Barna Highlight. As a set-apart people,

Flood survivors in Texas literally keep eyes on the cross
Weeks after the deadly July 4 Guadalupe River flood, its survivors still live with memories of danger, fear, confusion, loss—and faith. Will and Ann Britt awoke that morning just in time.