The weirdest part of the Gilmore Girls hometown? How they did community right.

Church leadership brings a heap of hilarious frustrations.

Reactions to her message to LGBT people highlight how confused we are about love and repentance.

When the storms hit and life gets real, he still proves faithful.

7 things you should know, from a mom who’s been there

5 steps toward healing and restoration

Scripture’s guidance for broken, hurting marriages

Caffeine is for sharing.

Consider the missional implications before you boycott.

The world is desperate for people to pray with.

Movies about humor and disappointment, inequality and autism, celebrity and Scientology.

He seemed to defy mortal boundaries, but in fact, he showed us the glory of simply being made in God's image.

In churches as in neighborhoods, sometimes the front lawn is the best place to build community.

The adaptation of Dave Eggers's novel is diverting, but never comes together.

We tend to emphasize his beyond-ness over his nearness. Why that’s a mistake.

What to do about privilege, poverty, and piles of stuff.

What Beverly Cleary taught me about childhood worries.

A neurosurgeon discovers hope and healing in the face of a terminal diagnosis.

Behind the fair-trade company that’s helping educate women in Uganda.

That moment when two Christian authors talk Twitter, comedy, writing, and guilty-pleasure foods.

Learning to trust God for your child's faith and future

Here's to stale coffee, hymn sings, and the next two thousand years.

A conversation with the biblical thriller's composer.

I learned for myself why some of the best adventures are taken alone.

The latest from "Once" director John Carney is an autobiographical, infectious 1980s musical.

The differences are telling, and so are the similarities.

Or anyone looking to prepare for tough conversations.

Using truth and grace to explore hidden cultural divides

How community discernment can help women recognize their gifts.

Under-population is the deeper global problem.

Our tangled building tells an evolving story.

Shame and peer pressure don’t lead to healthy discipleship.

Your pew Bibles should always smell, like, super good.

A group of 18th-century Scottish churchmen fought bitterly over the right teaching. How we can we avoid veering toward their extremes?

Diverse relationships within the church help teach and train.

A Jewish philosopher’s perspective on how God delivers his people from radical evil.

How those transcendent spires fell out of cultural favor, and why it's time to bring them back.

Being duped and blinded to the truth is no laughing matter. So why are we so obsessed with cults?

The Christian candidate's faith influences his platform, but not in the ways most critics assume.

Our social media mocking hasn’t gotten us closer to what it really means to live in God’s favor.

How my darkest hour revealed God’s brightest glory

Birth and baptism come at a painful cost.

The quest for style writing that informs and inspires, not shames and sells.

Questions raised by the candidate’s God-and-country vision.