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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.
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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…
RELEVANT looks at the search for contentment. Perhaps the search for meaning is to get simpler rather than more complicated.
Drawing the line between discernment and discretion.
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Christians use some odd terms. You know what I’m talking about—churchy words like “the aisle”…
When you’re pursuing a God-sized dream, the process is bound to get stressful at times. Here’s how to make the stress of the journey work for you, rather than against you.
There are a few things you should know about me. First, at the age of 7, I was introduced to a spiritual exercise repeated…
I had so much baggage as a child it nearly killed me. I moved 10…
There is a picture sitting beside my bed that I have held dear for nearly…
I had just placed my open Bible on our wobbly old communion table when a…
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