by Justin Cox | Oct 14, 2025 | Opinion
According to social media, I’ve crossed a dividing line. I’m entering a new frontier like those on the USS Enterprise. My ordination to the gospel ministry is about to hit double digits. I have survived a decade in congregational life. Pop the champagne...
by Sean Palmer | Oct 2, 2025 | Opinion
In the late 90s, when I was finding my voice in ministry, the air was thick with talk of becoming “missional.” Coffee shops and conferences buzzed with pastors dreaming aloud about churches that moved, congregations that reached out to the surrounding world with...
by Justin Cox | Oct 1, 2025 | Opinion
I choose to believe in certain things. Like how the color of my socks impacts a college basketball game. Or how Duke’s mayonnaise is the only acceptable condiment for a proper tomato sandwich. I’m prone to believe my hair looks better on the second day...
by Cody J. Sanders | Sep 17, 2025 | Opinion
When many churches talk about mental health, what they’re really talking about is mental illness. We must expand our perspective of what “mental health” means. When we talk about mental health in ministry, we often focus too narrowly on mental health crises and...
by Kessa Payne | Sep 16, 2025 | Opinion
In my formative college years, out from under the roof of the loving and protective home in which I grew up, I began to understand that the world was not as clear-cut as right or wrong, black or white. Between the extremes lay a gray area where my understanding of and...
