Maintaining a healthy, differentiated pastoral identity requires a persistent focus on the Bible’s descriptions of a pastor.

This was a very rough day for them, for reasons I still don’t fully know. They needed guidance from someone who cared. There I was.

“Healing the city one person at a time” became a catchphrase for our church.

The church often continues to act as if young parents and their children are the primary audiences for their ministry.

Julia Jumbo was a weaver—indeed, a master weaver.

The doorbell rang. We weren’t prepared for what happened next.

It’s easy to confuse shame with guilt or embarrassment, but shame is way more toxic.

We can follow our Lord in the way of overcoming evil with goodness by seeking to obey the ninth commandment in Christlike ways.

For 1,700 years, the Nicene Creed has been believed and memorized and confessed by Christians as a standard of their faith.

It’s easy to fall into the trap of catering to trends in hopes of winning youth to Jesus, but this reactive approach might lead to misplaced priorities and unintended consequences.

Our disunity is not uncommon, but it is not what God desires for us.

What does A Charlie Brown Christmas have to teach us about Advent?

Be honest. Do you prefer light topics when talking with your fellow church attenders?

The evening sky was rapidly darkening as my family frantically huddled outside our broken-down van on the rocky shoulder of a busy mountain highway.

Language is an imperfect means of human communication, and societies are constantly assessing or adding words to convey complex ideas.

While often identified as a Reformation slogan, we have no written evidence that the reformers themselves used these words together this way.

How do we converse without wrecking relationships or deepening divides? Here are a few tips.

This article is the honorable mention pick for The Banner’s 2024 Young Adults Writing Contest on the topic of peacemaking.

Third-place winner of The Banner’s 2024 Young Adults Writing Contest, with the topic of peacemaking.

Read the second-place winner of The Banner’s 2024 Young Adult Writing Contest on the topic of peacemaking.

The first-place winner of The Banner’s 2024 Young Adult Writing Contest on the topic of peacemaking.

When do we become “old”? How long does “middle age” last? What do all these categories say about us and to us?

While many of the challenges are unique to this particular time in history, some challenges are literally thousands of years old.