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Voices: Finding God’s blessing in our struggles

: July 25, 2017; By Zac Harrel

Every moment of our lives—even when we struggle and “wrestle” with God—we can look to the Cross and to the Resurrection and know God’s presence, love and blessing.

Voices: Stand with Texas pastors to support the state’s public schools

: July 24, 2017; By Charles Foster Johnson

In Texas, God’s common good is in crisis, notes Charles Foster Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children. God’s people need to stand up, speak out and support quality, fully funded public education for all God’s children.

Voices: Honoring diversity, seeking unity

: July 19, 2017; By Jake Raabe

Can the church in this hyper-partisan culture be a community of true diversity—not of socially mandated opinions, not of watered-down beliefs without substance, but an honest-to-God, one-of-a-kind community of unified diversity?

Voices: What does 6.5% have to do with your church?

: July 18, 2017; By Meredith Stone

As churches review candidates for pastor and other staff positions, a leader among Baptist women in ministry encourages search committees to consider women and men the same—and differently.

Voices: Will we become cyborg Christians?

: July 12, 2017; By James Hassell

Are we really moving toward a time when the future of business and daily life consists of the fusion between people and machines?

Voices: Keys to church revitalization, Part III

: July 12, 2017; By Ross Shelton

For most of the seven revitalized churches that were studied, the shift from focusing on a traditional worship style to a contemporary worship style was an important part of their revitalization.

Voices: Be careful, little fingers, what you type

: July 5, 2017; By Jake Raabe

The real spiritual danger of the Internet age is that it can encourage that oldest and greatest of sins—pride.

Voices: ‘Be in subjection’ and ‘Go tell that fox’—biblical attitudes to rulers

: July 5, 2017; By Patrick Adair

How should Christians respond to their rulers? The Bible speaks, but the answer is more complex than some Christians claim.

Voices: Jesus-style discipleship

: June 28, 2017; By Jonathan Smith

If Jesus had Twitter in his incarnation, his handle would have been @Simply_Make_Disciples.

Voices: Is conversion the cure America needs?

: June 27, 2017; By Garrett Vickrey

It’s going to take more than conversion to make progress on social ills like racism, violence and poverty. It’s going to take more than individual piety to create a more just society. The highly individualized theology of American Christianity leaves us hamstrung to face the social problems of our time.

Voices: A church for earthlings

: June 21, 2017; By Jeremiah Bailey

Churches are for people, and people are complicated. We’re human, and the records of our faith have not flinched in the face of that fact, so why should our churches?

Voices: Distraction or righteousness?

: June 21, 2017; By Dante Wright

What this year’s NBA Finals taught us is that racism rears its ugly head anywhere and everywhere.

Voices: Imagining the church as a hospital for the spiritually ill

: June 21, 2017; By Bob Ellis

If we think of church as a hospital, then under no circumstances could we ever turn someone away because her or his spiritual illness was too severe, or think someone has to change behavior or get healthy before becoming part of our community.