Amid the myriad of digital distractions, a significant number of Gen Zers are increasingly drawn…
Ever since God confused our language at the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), humanity has…
Have you ever had a conversation with a friend that quickly reveals some truth about…
You know you’re supposed to pray. You probably even know how to pray. But do you really…
Comedian and actor Russell Brand has taken a step in his faith. “Yesterday, I got…
If you’ve been in church before, you know it’s not necessarily known for its humor.…
It was almost five years ago that I first broke up with alcohol. Like many…
John Backman writes about passages of Scripture that find Jesus behaving remarkably human, and why these stories shouldn’t unsettle us, but comfort us.
There’s a movement that has woven its way into the lives of many millennials. It…
A recent poll of 2,000 pastors in North Carolina revealed that less than 10 percent…
RELEVANT reprints a portion of N.T. Wright’s book After You Believe, discussing how character transformation is the key to Christian living.
A faith of isolation has nothing prophetic or revolutionary to offer to a world of…
In the law, there is a concept of interpretation where an individual law can be…
For all the ways that grace is essential to our faith, it’s also one of…
Most of us would like to have the experience of serving God in some significant…
Mark Driscoll has apologized for how he expressed concern about an opening act performance at…
“If I wanted to go to a nightclub, I would go to a nightclub!” my…
Mark Driscoll is going viral after being kicked off stage at a Christian men’s conference…
Three months after I returned home, Jimmy happened upon a Facebook post of a pastor’s…
Within a society where people know the gist of what Christianity teaches but words such…
It was June 18, 1994, and I was having lunch with a non-Christian friend who…
What if I told you that Jesus didn’t want us to win converts? What if…
That June, I stood at the podium draped in black cap and gown. I was…
I once saw a billboard advertising “a church for people who don’t like church.” Funny,…
Imagine yourself as an Israelite. Egypt and its gods are a recent memory. There are…
I have the same memories as many evangelicals who grew up in church at the…
Whether you’ve been around Christianity for years or are new to faith, you probably know…
Anyone who has gone to church for any amount of time has likely noticed a…
Easter is the ideal time to reflect upon the concepts of transgressions and forgiveness. Forgiveness…
Community is revolutionary. When we bring it to a rolling boil, lives change and plans foment that ripple around the world. But it’s hard to cook up community from scratch in middle-class North America. Some days, just getting to know the neighbors on your street can feel like trying to get the wave going at a football game while everybody stares at you from their seats. Still, we go on believing that God made people—all of us, no matter your Myers-Briggs profile type—to need other people. So we need to figure out how to break our ruts of commuting, watching Hulu, and consuming Hot Pockets alone. And we couldn’t have better guides on how to do this than Adam and Christine Jeske.
Celebrating Christian holidays can sometimes feel like a challenge. There is no doubt that Christmas…
I grew up in churches where we never, ever ended the worship service without having…
Some say laughter is contagious. But when it comes to the online world, the most…
Sadly, it turns out that Christians aren’t the only religious group experiencing low church attendance.…
Elevation Church and pastor Steven Furtick are facing controversy after a recent interview with a…
I recently spent a year of my life on a 37,000-mile prayer pilgrimage around the…
Faith has always been a challenging word for me. I was a philosophy major, not…
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a hundred times: “We don’t do church…
I am a missionary/aid-worker. I live far from my family, and my time spent with…