After a decade of innovation, growth and “pastoral shopkeeping,” essayist Andy Kadzban realized he had left God out of the equation.
When the congregation at Arlington Presbyterian Church decided to be the church, Sharon Core reflects, profound shifts followed.
Eight unique ministries offer insights into the future of the ever-evolving church.
If we do the work, if we keep listening, we get to co-write the next plausible chapter of our good news together, writes Karen Rohrer.
Richard Dubose discovers the vulnerability that settled in with the pandemic allowed Montreat staffers to understand what authentic and faithful hospitality includes.
Invitations to other denominations isn’t enough. Instead, Joel Winchip believes, finding the strengths – and weaknesses – we all see in our ministries can help us serve more people.
While lost in the once familiar New York City, Johanna W.H. van Wijk-Bos found two women who offered guidance and protection to the wandering stranger.
Showing up and saying yes, even when – especially when – we don’t know where that answer will lead, is a major lesson in Christian hospitality, say Colleen Earp and Clayton Rascoe.
Writer Alejandra Oliva meditates on preparing feasts for friends — and strangers.
Artificial intelligence is as common as cell phones, but understanding it – even while using it – is another story, writes Dartinia Hull.
When writing for the Outlook's March 2024 issue, Eric Nolin struggled to find women leaders in the Christian world working with AI. What does that say about the tech world? About the Christian world?
Eric Nolin speaks to people in ministry who are finding innovative ways to use AI faithfully in the Christian world.
AI is integrated into the work done in any administrative, research, or social role — including ministry, writes Kate Ott.
Jacob Alan Cook asks: Can we train artificial intelligence to coach us into deeper honesty so we can help others — whose lives it might know more intimately than we do?
Scott Hagley suggests small congregations as places for cultivating communities of abundance and care, as common places for social healing and spiritual renewal.
Bobbi Kaye Jones writes the letter that she wishes someone had written to her.
Christ-centered, intentionally intergenerational, creative, hospitable and celebratory, this church isn’t easy, but it’s magnificent, writes Jenny McDevitt.
Is your church mostly blue, largely red or solidly purple? Whatever the case, pastoral theologian Eileen Campbell-Reed wants you to prioritize and ritualize your congregation’s grief to help you find your way in this new era of ministry.
Moving forward in the spirit of agape love can help allay dissonance and build the Beloved Community, Lesley Anne Earles and Debra J. Mumford write.
The school in Mayesville, South Carolina, once had a prominent space in the community’s heart. A group of alumni are working hard to renew its mission.
We asked you to write about small, beautiful moments in 250 words or less. Here are some of our favorite submissions.
Budgets and worship numbers matter — but they are not everything, Phil Blackburn believes.
A church can be viable without a pastor, writes Catherine Neelly Burton. Once we embrace this, churches can go about their work of being Christ’s body.
There is no sure-fire recipe guaranteed to produce faith, Ronald Byars writes. Maybe that’s why so many testify that their faith came as a gift.
Lydia Griffiths maintains there is rich diversity among Protestant religious thinkers when it comes to a transforming relationship with God.
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