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How to Overcome Betrayal Trauma in Ministry

With their friends’ departures, pastors have had to recalibrate the very real cost of spiritual intimacy in doing life together.

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.”

The Rise of the Entrepreneurial Church: How Churches Can Fund Ministry Beyond Tithes

Entrepreneurial church models allow churches to step outside the walls of Sunday services and meet people where they live, work and gather. They open doors to relationships that lead to discipleship. They create spaces for people who might never set foot in a sanctuary to encounter the love of Christ.

Grace Beyond Burnout

Reading the warning signs and embracing hope. Here's practical help for all who know what it means to feel depleted.

7 Reasons Why Church Worship Centers Will Get Smaller

Thom Rainer: "A seismic shift is taking place in American church facilities, a shift that will become even more noticeable in the years to come."

What's Trending in Multisite? 2014

Jim Tomberlin, church consultant, offers his annual report and forecast for the development of the multisite movement

Reshaping the American Megachurch

What are the trends among the country’s largest congregations?

The Neighborhood and the Nations

When it comes to issues like extreme poverty, HIV, economic development and education, does the American church have a new responsibility? One we didn’t have just a few years ago?

Riding the Ministry Roller Coaster

All ministries have seasons of peaks and valleys, but there's a sustaining secret to the journey that's easy to overlook.

Physics, Faith and the Myth of Intellectual Suicide

Renowned physicist and Anglican priest John Polkinghorne: “You don’t have to commit intellectual suicide to be a religious believer; otherwise I wouldn’t be one.”

Victor Marx: Restored!

"People will admire you for your success, but they will relate to you because of your pain."