Features
A minister battling COVID-19 flatlines
As Beth McCullough ran toward the hospital, she wasn’t sure what would happen next. A nurse was on the phone. Her father, Marty Neal, 61,…
September 2020
View as PDF• Minister battling COVID-19 flatlines • As pandemic drags on, suffer the little children • After the pandemic, will people return to church? • The Bible in 3D • Anti-abortion legislator fights to keep his job • Cutting through COVID-19 confusion • As Christians, let’s end ‘corona culture’ • Portland Christian seek peaceful path amid protests • Seeking justice, mercy with God’s love • A place of quiet Rescue • The challenge is a blessing • Working to improve Hispanic marriages • Stafford North is ‘there’ at last • Jimmy allen dies at 90 • This school year, think #Phil234 • The Brotherhood Express • Book offers surprisingly suspenseful church history • He made Kid President famous • The pandemic’s terrible, terrible blessing
In this issue:
Inside Story
After the pandemic, will people return to church?
A note on the Facebook page of the Glendale Road Church of Christ in Murray, Ky., caught my attention recently. It referred to the ongoing…
Top Stories
Ousted by Democrats, anti-abortion preacher runs as independent in Tennessee
As a teen, longtime Tennessee state Rep. John DeBerry Jr. integrated an all-White high school and witnessed civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.’s final…
National
Cutting through COVID-19 confusion
When it comes to COVID-19, it’s easy to feel uncertain, confused, even angry. Information from the news, social media and family and friends doesn’t always…
National
Portland Christians seek peaceful path amid protests
Great photographers know the secret to a great picture: Get closer. Focus on the faces, the emotion, the destruction. Fill the frame with impact. When…
News
The Bible in 3D
Most Sundays, W. Mark Lanier teaches Bible class for a Baptist congregation in Houston. Once, while he was guest-speaking for a Church of Christ, Lanier…
Perspective
As Christians, let’s end ‘corona culture’
EDMOND, Okla. — I thought a disease on the other side of the world would never reach me. Or if it did, it wouldn’t be a big…
International
As pandemic drags on, suffer the little children
So far, COVID-19 has spared children from the worst of its physical effects. Most reported cases in kids appear to be asymptomatic or mild, according…
National
Seeking justice, mercy with God’s love
HYATTSVILLE, Md. — Over the past three months, I’ve covered protests in Lafayette Square in front of the White House. I’ve prayed with family by the…
People
Stafford North is ‘there’ at last
OKLAHOMA CITY — On July 5, in the parking lot of the Memorial Road Church of Christ, Stafford North gave what would be his final public…
Editorial
This school year, think #PHIL234
Back-to-school time typically brings hope and energy. We look forward to cooler weather, football, pumpkin spice (well, some of us) and holidays. Not this year.…
Features
A place of quiet Rescue
PRICEVILLE, Ala. — The motionless reflection of the trees in Project Rescue’s two ponds mirrors the quiet of the Alabama countryside. “Everything you look at just…
Dialogue
Working to improve Hispanic marriages
For 14 years, Scott and Holly Emery served on a church-planting mission team in Santiago, Chile. They returned to the United States in 2013 and…
Reviews
Book offers surprisingly suspenseful church history
Believe it or not, the Land Run of 1889, celebrated and recreated yearly by school children across Oklahoma, had a negative impact on Churches of…
Reviews
Review: Becoming Better Grownups
Right around the halfway point of our world-wide extended Spring Break, I turned 40 years old. In our culture this is still considered a milestone,…
In the Word
The Brotherhood Express
Huntersville, N.C. — The days of the Pony Express may be long gone, but the “Brotherhood Express” is alive and well. I know this because of…
Milestones
Milestones, September 2020
Anniversary Dwight and Josephine Albright 50 years September 8 Memphis, Tenn. Happy Anniversary, Dwight and Josephine! Billy Joe and Lesley Mize 65 years Billy Joe…
Partners
Partners, September 2020
BIBLE CAMPS MID-SOUTH YOUTH CAMP HENDERSON, Tenn. — Mid-South Youth Camp held a groundbreaking ceremony in August to celebrate the building of a new dining…
International
Around the World, September 2020
CHINA HONG KONG — Tension is high in this city of 7.5 million souls, a former British territory that, since 1997, has been a Special…