Interviews

Ryan Kwon: Nothing to Prove

“We’re so accustomed to the church being a noun. I want our bias to be action-oriented, and a movement that goes outward.”

Kyle Strobel: Power in Weakness

“Christians should become powerful Christians. But it’s only ever a power made perfect in our weakness, and it’s only ever a power that comes from God.”

Steve Carter: My Journey Through the Desert of Grief

The lessons about grief, God and identity Steve Carter encountered after resigning from Willow Creek

Shane Farmer: An Irrevocable Call

"Part of what drives me to this day is Christ called me into ministry. I ran, but he called me back, and he did not revoke his call."

Matt Chandler: A Church Planter’s Heart

Matt Chandler: "When it’s my turn to go home to glory, I’d much rather leave behind hundreds and hundreds of gospel-rich churches than just one big church where I preached."

Charles Jenkins: Ministry and the Arts

The senior pastor of an iconic, historic, multiethnic and multigenerational church, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago

Erwin McManus: The Soul as Art

"When I became a person of faith, to be perfectly frank, all the models for discipleship were suffocating to me."

Hugh Halter: On Mission and Beyond

Hugh Halter: "The goal is not that you have incarnational people, but incarnational communities."

Samuel Rodriguez: The Message and the March

“How can we be happy that we have a sanctuary that seats 5,000, when 10 minutes away there are people in poverty?”

Glen Peterson: Immigration and the Church

Glen Peterson: “Guiding immigrants through the logistics of the immigration process is a very profound way churches can help."

James D. Gailliard: A New Trajectory

"When ministry changes the direction and the trajectory of an individual's or a family's life, then it is successful."