Christian Doctor Contracts Ebola and Lives to Tell About ItGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat HappenedWhen Dr. Kent Brantly went to the African nation of Liberia ...

What exactly has evangelical come to mean? An increasing number of liberal evangelicals, popular among younger Christians has altered the traditional image. Chelsen Vicari, author of Distortion: How t...

Quick BackdropThis morning, I saw a praying mantis on my front porch. It got me thinking. In fact, consider the praying mantis for a minute. Go ahead. Just for a minute. It's a weird, big bug, not a common inse...

Practicing Random Acts of KindnessGet free downloadable PDF.Get free downloadable PowerPoint presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat HappenedIt was a pretty ordinary Wednesday morning at the Tyrone Boulevard Starbuck...

@import url(http://admin2.salemwebnetwork.com/CuteSoft_Client/CuteEditor/Load.ashx?type=style&file=SyntaxHighlighter.css);@import url(/ywjadmin_wysiwyg.css); Subversive. That word has been on my mind a great d...

Having spent the past eight years noodling in topics such as intentional community, spiritual formation and pilgrimage, it's not surprising that when I think about wholeness I can't help draw upon the image of ...

I'm not from the South, but I lived in Texas for a few formative years. One of my favorite things about Texas was the liberal use of the word y'all, or better yet the phrase all y'all. I never had heard that ph...

I remember the 4-mile drive to our small Baptist church when I was a child. We passed many other churches: Methodist, Lutheran, Roman Catholic and another Baptist church. Decades later, my drive to church (near...

Retreats are magical, and the same is true of summer camps and mission trips. If you've spent any time in youth ministry, you likely have discovered students' lives can be impacted more in a weekend or one week...

I dreaded going into the office on Monday morning following Fish Olympics. Several hundred high schoolers showed up for an event at which we used frozen trout as shot puts, volleyballs, hockey pucks and other O...