Faith
Scripture, ministry, and the everyday work of the spiritual life.
Holy Week Starts Sunday and the Church Has One Week to Do Something With It
Palm Sunday is six days away and Easter follows one week after that. For most churches, this is the highest attendance week of the year....
The Return to Liturgy: Why Young Christians Are Choosing Ancient Forms Over Modern Church
Something is happening at the edges of American Christianity that most megachurch pastors would rather not talk about. Young people who...
Scripture Memorization Is Making a Quiet Comeback and the AI Age Is the Reason
You might expect scripture memorization to keep declining in a world where every Bible text is two taps away on a phone. The opposite is...
When People Trust AI for Spiritual Advice As Much As Their Pastor, the Church Has a Problem to Solve
A new Barna study finds one in three Americans trust AI spiritual guidance as much as pastoral counsel. For Gen Z and Millennials, that...
The Church Does Not Celebrate Easter for One Day. It Celebrates for Fifty.
Easter Sunday is April 5. Pentecost is May 24. The 50 days between them are called Eastertide, and most American Christians have no idea...
Pope Leo XIV Begins Historic Africa Pilgrimage With First Ever Papal Visit to Algeria
The pontiff's 11-day journey across four African nations starts with a gesture of interfaith unity at the Great Mosque of Algiers,...
The Daily Office Is How Christians Prayed For Fifteen Hundred Years. Here Is How To Start.
Morning prayer and evening prayer was the default rhythm of the church long before quiet time devotionals. Here is the simple structure...
The Easter Vigil Is the Most Misunderstood Service on the Christian Calendar and Maybe the Most Important
Saturday night into Sunday morning, in candlelight, the church waits and then explodes. If you have never been, this is what it is.
Holy Saturday Is the Day Most Christians Skip, and That Is the Problem
The day between the cross and the empty tomb is built for silence. Most of us treat it like a gap in the calendar, and we lose something...
Nashville Haitian Pastors Launch Free Trauma Counseling Network For Families Facing TPS Uncertainty
A coalition of Haitian pastors in Nashville has launched a free mental health counseling network for families caught in the limbo of the...
Orthodox Christians Prepare for Pascha as Holy Week Begins This Sunday
Orthodox Christians around the world enter Holy Week this Sunday leading up to Pascha on April 12, and local parishes in Nashville and...
Catholic Universities Are Quietly Having Their Best Recruiting Year in a Decade
First time freshman deposits at the 244 Catholic universities in the US are tracking 14.7 percent above last year per ACCU. Application...
New LDS Prophet Dallin Oaks Tells Believers That Protecting Democracy Requires Loving Your Opponents
In his first major address as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Dallin H. Oaks delivered a message about peace,...
The Church Next to Harvard Is Overflowing and Nobody Predicted That
St. Paul's Church near Harvard's campus welcomed nearly 70 new members this year, about 20 more than last year, as young intellectuals...
Young Men Are Quietly Walking Back Into Church and Nobody Saw It Coming
The conversation about faith and young adults has focused for years on who is leaving. What is getting less attention is a measurable shift...
The Church Has a Trust Problem and Pastors Need to Name It
Only 30 percent of Americans say clergy have high levels of honesty and ethics. That number is down from where it was a decade ago. Here's...
Gallup Says Young Men Are Leading a Religious Revival. PRRI Says There Is No Revival. Both Can't Be Right.
A new Gallup poll shows 42% of young men say religion is very important in their lives, a 25-year high. A new PRRI study finds no evidence...
The Biblical Case for Peace When the World Will Not Stop
When the news stays bad and the uncertainty keeps building, scripture does not offer escape from the moment. It offers something harder and...
The Sunday After Easter Is for People Who Still Have Questions
The week after Easter is called Thomas Sunday in many Christian traditions, named for the disciple who needed to see the wounds before he...
Pope Leo XIV Ordains Ten Priests on World Day of Prayer for Vocations
The pope's Sunday homily centered on a single image, priests as channels rather than filters, and the call extends well beyond Rome.
Pope Leo XIV Calls Sunday Eucharist Indispensable For Christian Life, Reframing A Question Many Churches Have Stopped Asking
Speaking from St Peter's Square earlier this month, Pope Leo XIV said the Sunday Eucharist is indispensable for Christian life. The...
Pastors Are Doing Something Different With Acts of the Apostles This Easter Season
The lectionary swaps in Acts of the Apostles for the Old Testament reading during the seven Sundays after Easter. A growing number of...
Christian Colleges Are Setting Enrollment Records While Secular Schools Keep Shrinking
Liberty, Cedarville, Grove City, and Wheaton all reported record or near record undergraduate enrollment for the 2025-26 academic year. The...
Bible Journaling Apps Are Quietly Becoming the Most Used Faith Tools of 2026
While the headlines focus on Hallow and YouVersion, a quieter group of journaling and devotional apps has built daily habits in millions of...
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