When a sermon hides within a prayer, Mark Wingfield believes “it demonstrates a lack of thoughtfulness about the role of prayer in worship and denies the congregation a voice in prayer.”

Karl Vaters believes the church should become more digital but never at the expense of being a flesh-and-blood community of faith.

In a blunt interview, Jonathan Merritt interviews Baylor sociologist Rodney Stark on “the definition of religion, the nature of atheism and the benefit of heresy.”

For The Week, Damon Linker questions whether the rise of “spiritual but not religious” people necessarily means the fall of the religious right.

Kevin Kim Wright calls for church leaders to emulate Amazon’s “innovative and adaptive” methods to better face today’s cultural shifts and changing demographics.

A director and a member of the Heritage Foundation assert that businesses should not have to comply with local government non-discrimination policies if they go against their religious beliefs.

Jonathan Merritt argues that the LGBT-directed Nashville Statement, created by the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, fails to make its case.

When disaster strikes, the church ought to be the first to assume good faith.

Ed Stetzer wonders about “Christians joining in on spreading the false narrative” of Joel Osteen’s actions with regard to Lakewood Church in the wake of Hurricane Harvey,

Martin Luther King Jr. had it right when he said that 11 a.m. on Sunday morning is the most segregated hour in America.

Hurricane Harvey and the Houston floods remind Houstonian Beth Moore why she loves her hometown. (Article by Beth Moore for Christianity Today)

Evangelical Trump advisor Johnnie Moore: “You only make a difference if you have a seat at the table.”