Sunday in Ukraine
IRPIN, UKRAINE — Walls of pure white, adorned with a single, thin wooden cross, surround a group of 35 worshipers on Sunday morning. The immaculate…
Archive: Jul 2024
A guide to avert demise for declining churches
The interesting cases, Scriptures, interviews, models and analogies in “Tombstones to Cornerstones: Hope and Help for Churches in Stress and Decline” highlight actions needed after…
Christian bioethicists help students consider the moral complexities of IVF
ABILENE, TEXAS — As the number of U.S. frozen embryos has grown to estimates beyond a million, their moral status has become the crux of…
‘That embryo was created by God’
When 7-year-old Rosie Buchholtz asks where she came from, her mother answers simply. “I just tell her, ‘A very nice family gave us you, and…
Across the Nation: A tent revival, a ‘Church of Christ Day,’ a unity service and more quick takes
Across the Nation is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ across the U.S. Got an idea for this…
Antonio Cardona joins Christian Chronicle’s board
While walking through a cow pasture in Puerto Rico, a teenager named Antonio Cardona came across a piece of paper advertising a free Bible course…
New endowment honors legacy of Howard Norton
‘The church is not a political party, a civic club nor a country club. It is to be the body of Jesus.” Those words are…
‘That’s when I heard the first bullet’
Just before the shooting began at former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Butler, Pa., Becky Krivak’s husband, John, tapped her on the shoulder. Police…
Polishing the Pulpit puts the focus on preaching
BRANSON, MO. — I was 6 when my family packed a U-Haul truck and moved to Louisiana so my father, Bob, could attend the White’s…
‘In violent times, you shouldn’t have to sell your soul’
I spent Saturday afternoon driving my family home from my in-laws’ in Altus, Okla. We plugged in my phone and queued up the greatest hits…
