How we’ve made those five minutes of our service some of the most influential—for kids and adults. I didn’t grow up with children’s sermons, and for my first five years of ministry, I never gave them ...

These churches are learning to welcome children into their worship and mission. In the early 1950s, American social institutions were inundated with the children from the baby boom. Seeing the unique ...

If the book doesn’t interest you, Walter Huffman told me, perhaps the story behind it will. With Valentine’s Day two days away, I’ll tell you about both. Huffman, 81, is a retired minister who served ...

One day during the coffee hour after church I mentioned to someone that I enjoyed the fact that there were more children in worship than there used to be. “I think it’s important for them to be there, ...

The musician and drag queen is an exvangelical who came to see that holding on to a theology of self-loathing was just too dangerous. The US government is deploying Norman Rockwell’s paintings of ...

An independent fundamentalist church in Indianapolis is doubling down on a sermon in which a lay preacher encouraged congregants to pray for the deaths of those who identify as LGBTQ+. The sermon — a ...

A recently-ordained preacher in Chicago is going viral after wearing drag to lead a Bible study class with kids. The session took place December 13 at St Luke’s Lutheran Church on Logan Square. The ...

Sure Foundation Baptist Church member Stephen Falco (left); Church preacher Justin Zhong – Photos: Facebook Screenshots A fundamentalist church in Indianapolis is defending a June 29 sermon in which a ...