Top Stories
Guilty and forgiven
SEARCY, Ark. — A stunned silence fell over the daily chapel service at Harding University, where police shooting victim Botham Shem Jean, 26, earned his…
November 2019
View as PDF• Guilty and forgiven • It’s time to talk about predators in the church • A split-second transformation • ‘The world starts next door’ • Church members discuss adoption, orphan care with Ukraine’s president • From justice champion to president • What it really means to pastor • A ‘mission critical’ president • Dan Coker, a ‘bigger-than-life man of God’ in Latin America, dies at 82 • He leads me beside Stillwater • Dismissing a minister: What not to do • Editorial: The future of the church: Let us dream • Living in a world with a missing God • Want Christian leaders to be all they can be? The Army can help • Why attend a Christian university? Here’s an answer you weren’t expecting
In this issue:
Inside Story
It’s time to talk about predators in the church
SEARCY, Ark. — The predator repented. Or so he claimed. He’d done his time and confessed his sins. He was a changed man. Or so he…
National
A split-second transformation
As Don Blackwell made his way onstage at this year’s Polishing the Pulpit conference, he was nervous. Hundreds of times before, maybe even thousands, Blackwell…
International
Church members meet with Ukrainian president
Christians who have dedicated their lives to serving orphans and at-risk children had the ear of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday. Andrew and Jenny…
Top Stories
From global justice champion to Christian university president
MALIBU, Calif. — A few hours after Jim Gash’s inauguration this fall as Pepperdine University’s eighth president, his wife, Joline, showed up at her husband’s…
International
‘Dean of Latin American missions’ Dan Coker dies at 82
Dan Coker, a longtime missionary and ministry trainer for Churches of Christ in Central and South America, died Wednesday night in Tyler, Texas. He was…
Editorial
Editorial: The future of the church. Let us dream.
That’ll preach. We were blessed to be at the recent Harding University Bible Lectureship in Searcy, Ark., on the night that Harold Shank gave the…
Opinion
He leads me beside Stillwater
A lot of young people choose a college based on family loyalties to a university or great scholarships. For me, neither was the case. I…
Perspective
Worst practices for dismissing a minister
Talking with ministers who have lost their jobs can feel repetitive. And depressing. The ministers don’t all paint themselves as perfect or without weakness or…
Insight
Why attend a Christian university? Here’s an answer you weren’t expecting.
HENDERSON, Tenn. — Far too many of us think that “Christian education” means you have to sacrifice some of your education to get the Christian element.…
Milestones
Newsmakers, November 2019
Featured Photo (above): Dan Williams presents the Distinguished Christian Service Award to Ava Conley during Harding University’s Bible lectureship. HONORED Ava Conley, emeritus professor of Spanish…
Milestones
Milestones, November 2019
Memorials Neita Marie Gage 1930 – 2019 Neita Marie Gage left this world on Aug. 29, 2019, in Lubbock, Texas, and will be greatly missed…
Partners
A ‘mission critical’ president
Ohio Valley University inaugurated Michael Ross as its new president Sept. 20 — an unlikely calling for an optimist. And he wasn’t looking for a…
Dialogue
What it really means to pastor
OKLAHOMA CITY — Scot McKnight teaches in a Baptist seminary and worships with an Anglican church. But his latest book “began in Churches of Christ,” he…
Partners
Partners, November 2019
Featured photo (above): A boy named Jhonny works on chores in the boys’ residential house at Emmaus House, a ministry in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, that helps…
News
‘The world starts next door’
Walk up to a house in your neighborhood, knock on the door, and ask whoever answers to study the Bible with you or to visit…
Reviews
Review: The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual
Ever find godly wisdom in an unexpected place? It happened to me when I read the “The U.S. Army Leadership Field Manual.” I was trying…
Reviews
Living in a world with a missing God
Have you ever felt that God was distant and removed from our culture today? Do you watch the news and scroll through social media, shaking…
News
Around the World, November 2019
Featured photo (above): In the East African nation of Uganda, people in the Palabek settlement camp are learning about Jesus through World Bible School. Minister…