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Your Church Needs Boomers

How a hyper-focus on “attracting the young” can sideline the aging faithful.

Michelle Van Loon

We rarely hear it put as bluntly as did the small congregation of Grove United Methodist Church, where some members recently claimed “age discrimination” over a service being cancelled, but there are many churches sending a similar message: “If you are an older adult, we don’t want you here.”

As a part of denominational efforts to reboot the Cottage Grove, Minnesota, church, leaders are asking the 25 or so people who gather each week in the Grove building to leave their ...

Obituary

Died: Jack Van Impe, Televangelist Who Saw Signs of End Times

Daniel Silliman

Jack Van Impe, a popular televangelist and one of the world’s most well-known end times preachers, died at the age of 88. His passing was confirmed Saturday by Jack Van Impe Ministries International.

Every week for more than 30 years, Van Impe appeared on TV as the host of his own half-hour show, Van Impe Presents, offering eschatological commentary on current events. Alongside his wife Rexella, Van Impe read the latest headlines and explained how they connected to prophecy about the Antichrist, ...

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Boko Haram Executes Pastor Who Turned Hostage Video into Testimony

(UPDATED) Beheaded Brethren leader taken captive in Nigeria said he was at peace with death because Jesus “is still alive.”

Jayson Casper

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You Can’t Reject a Faith You Never Knew

Historian Alec Ryrie offers a revisionist take on the roots of unbelief. But there’s another story that needs telling.

Timothy Larsen

CT Pastors

The ’20s Come Roaring Back

Conservative Christians were mocked in the courtroom. Famous preachers were caught in scandal. Did we learn anything?

Barry Hankins

Sorry, James and David: Silas and Obadiah Are Today’s Trending Bible Names.

Weird biblical names are on the rise. What’s behind the trend?

Lyman Stone

News | CT Magazine

US Religion Census Maps Changing Churches, Declining Denominations

The 2020 project shows shifting complexity of organized religion.

Daniel Silliman

Quick to Listen

What This Aboriginal Christian Wants to Tell the Church About the Australia Fires

Why the unprecedented natural disaster is an opportunity to start listening to indigenous voices.

Morgan Lee

News

Abortion Regret Isn’t a Myth, Despite New Study

What women may refuse to disclose to researchers at a clinic, they’re confessing in Bible studies decades later.

Maria Baer

Excerpt | CT Magazine

Theologians: Don’t Lose Sight of Theology’s Most Basic Task

Students and teachers alike need to remember the difference between knowing theology and knowing God.

Adam Neder

News

Supreme Court Reconsiders State Bans on Public Funding for Religious Schools

Could a Montana school choice case be the end of Blaine amendments?

Megan Fowler with reporting by AP

Editorial

On MLK Day, Be Still and Listen

Hearing each other is a miracle. We need to practice receiving it as such.

Daniel Harrell

News

More Non-Evangelicals Are Calling Themselves Born Again

A growing share of mainline Protestants and Catholics have taken on the once-distinctive label over the past three decades.

Ryan Burge

evangelism

The Confessions of a Recovering Evangelist

In a society full of people who would rather speak than listen, people are starving for someone who is willing to offer them their ears.

Doug Pollock

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When Satan Takes the High Road, We Take the Low Road

Why humility is one of the most effective tools for resisting the Devil.

Andrew Wilson

The Exchange

Why Has Evangelism Declined?

Instead of starting with our questions, we should start where people are and walk them to the gospel.

Ed Stetzer

Church Planting, Growth, Community

Should Church Planting Be Done Through People or Through Churches?

In today’s churches, we place more of an emphasis on church planting through people than we do church planting through churches.

Ed Stetzer

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