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.
Working in a daycare center made writer Allison Backous wonder: What does it mean to humble yourself like a child?
Maybe. But the default ought to be to have all God’s people in worship.
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.
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.
Why in the world would you have kids? “Why not?” God asks, and the world spins into existence.
New mother Heather Moffitt writes about finding parenting advice in a surprising place: The book of Numbers.
How youth truancy became multicultural evangelism.
Kenda Creasy Dean, theologian and teacher of youth ministry, says churches must take youth ministry seriously if they want to capture the imagination of young people.
What does Jesus mean when he says we should lead like a child?