Do people join a church because they share its members' beliefs? This has become the putative ideal, the only pure motivation for church affiliation. But I have seldom heard it voiced at our new ...

Gary McIntosh and Charles Arn wrote a deeply insightful book several years ago titled What Every Pastor Should Know. As someone who values both research and real-life church application, I find the ...

In the early 2000s, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints were the most Republican-leaning religious ...

I was a few months into my pastorate when a woman in a large SUV rolled down her window to catch me in the church’s parking lot. “Good morning, Pastor!” I said hello and introduced myself; she did the ...