Prince Raney Rivers: Measuring ministry by listening to children
Counting bricks, budgets and bodies is a good thing. Listening carefully to what the church’s children say about what we’re doing is too.
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Broken behavior: Going to church with a challenging child
Taking her son with special needs to Sunday services taught Heather Moffitt how to be broken in church.
Mark Chaves: Evangelicals lose fewer youth than liberals
If your church cares about its youth growing up in the faith, it'll hire full-time youth ministers.
Young adults open to religious participation
Despite the fears that today's youth are turning away from God, new research shows that young people say religious faith is important to their lives. Take our new quiz to test your knowledge about youth and religion.
Budding scientist Jasón Martin-Showes, 7, peers into a microscope during science night at Winton Montessori Elementary School in Cincinnati. The annual event is organized with support from Parents for Public Schools of Greater Cincinnati, one of many nonprofits that Strive is bringing together in collaborative partnerships to improve education in the region. Photo courtesy of Parents for Public Schools of Greater Cincinnati
The dot connectors
In Cincinnati, Strive is a new kind of ‘catalytic’ nonprofit, bringing others together to ensure academic success for children.
Coming of age
The new novel “Once Was Lost” explores an adolescent believer’s crisis of faith and family. It is worth reading, even for people who have long avoided the church library and the young-adult aisle of the bookstore, writes Laura Bramon Good.
Who is the greatest?
Working in a daycare center made writer Allison Backous wonder: What does it mean to humble yourself like a child?
Sarah Morice Brubaker: Does the cry room have a place in God’s house?
Maybe. But the default ought to be to have all God’s people in worship.
Sari Bari
Women in the sex trade in India turn old saris into art through a Word Made Flesh initiative that aims to help them regain their freedom.
David L. Odom: Traditioned innovation in action
Every church wants to be filled with young families and children. There is no shortcut to that goal. "Traditioned innovation," and beautiful art, are more pain-staking, but ultimately more beautiful, ways to approach it.