Simple Church

B&H Publishing Group, 241 pp., 2006, $19.99, www.bhpublishinggroup.com After extensive research in American churches, Thom Rainer and Eric Geiger found an almost universal difference between vibrant, thriv...

Leeland Gets it Done

Recording a Grammy-nominated first album. Songwriting with Michael W. Smith. Touring churches across the country. Getting his homework done? For LEELAND MOORING, this is nothing out of the ordinary. Mooring, th...

Barista Balladeer

CARLY ESCOTO went from Starbucks barista to bestselling pop artist faster than you can froth a latte. Escoto was one of the 15 Starbucks employees chosen to record a song on Off the Clock Vol. 1: New Music from...

New Illiteracy: Interview with Mark Bauerlein

 Mark Bauerlein is a professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, and the author of many books. In his next book, called The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Je...

Learning the Language of Longings

Adolescents are guided by something called egocentric abstraction. They see life through the limited lenses of self-interest and protection. So they say things and do things that are actually deeper cries for...

Worship that Teaches

Do the acts of the first-century believers leave you longing for the supernatural atmosphere of those amazing days? The period detailed for us in the book of Acts and in the New Testament letters was a miraculo...