Four years after his mother’s passing, pastor Zac Harrel echoes the lament of Mark 9:24: “I believe; help my unbelief!”

How do you define a healthy church? Instead of numbers, Jim Kitchens and the Center for Healthy Churches “look at how much that church follows in the way of Jesus.”

Tim Randolph, director of the Waco Regional Baptist Association, discusses the role of local Baptist associations, the challenges they face and his calling to ministry.

This week’s Letters to the Editor discuss two of Jake Raabe’s op-eds on gun control and Confederate monument removal.

We need to repent so that our culture no longer tolerates sexual assault and harassment, questions if it is real, or just explains it away.

Men, it would be beautiful for us to begin by saying, “I was wrong, and I am sorry.” And then say, “Help me to make this better.”

Pastor Garrett Vickrey reflects on the moral authority of today’s church and whether our words still reflect the word of God.

Following the tragedy of the Las Vegas mass shooting, Jake Raabe asks gun-owning Christians questions about trust and protection.

Keith Platte, director of the Baptist Student Ministry at Howard Payne University, discusses the importance of the local church for campus ministries and why he feels called to college ministry.

Congressman Chris Smith, chairman of the global human rights subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, suggests that more can and should be done for persecuted Christians and Yazidis in Iraq.

What of American churches? Are most too divided, declining, naïve, immobilized, silent to offer effective responses to firearm violence and the spiritual (yes, spiritual) issues that impact them? When an agnostic or two show up after this or the next shooting incident, will we have any good news? (from BNG)

In light of NFL protests during the national anthem, pastor Eric Black analyzes why he stands when the anthem is played.