After decades in which new church buildings were designed to look like anything but — boxy auditoriums, sparse stages, warehouse-chic exteriors — a number of congregations are building and renovating worship
The charge is familiar, and often meant seriously: if the local church were doing its job, parachurch ministries would not need to exist. In an essay for The Gospel Coalition,
In many contemporary services, worship has become something a congregation is expected to show. Hands raised, eyes closed, standing, moving to the front — these are read as signs of a
Suomen Viikkolehti has published an account of how the Finnish Free Church's teaching on baptism took shape, following a seminar at which questions about baptism were raised. The
On the Faroe Islands, a small archipelago of some 55,000 people in the North Atlantic, the light of the gospel shines more brightly than almost anywhere else in the
An increasing number of pastors are turning to artificial intelligence for help in preparing their sermons, and Mike Bullmore is worried about what that is doing to them. Writing for
Christianity has always been a faith in translation. Its Scriptures were given in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, and its spread across the world has meant constant movement from one language
A pastor in California has built an artificial-intelligence version of himself. Justin Lester assembled a digital twin from nearly two million words of his sermons, books and other messages,
The theological commission of the French-speaking Swiss Free Evangelical churches publishes a regular series of round-table discussions on questions of the day, and its recent editions range across
Nearly two-thirds of evangelicals in the United Kingdom agree with the statement, “Everyone sins a little, but most people are good by nature.” The finding comes from the latest
Something has shifted in evangelical reading habits. Where the movement’s strengths once lay in biblical exegesis, preaching, spirituality, missions and evangelism, it is now common to find evangelical theologians,
Ask a younger worship leader how they decide whether a new song belongs in a Sunday service, and the honest answer is often that they are not sure. That is
Teachers from Estonia’s theological schools have begun an unusually broad joint project to strengthen the training of pastors and church workers, meeting for two days at Pühajärve in the
The Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Czech Republic will hold a free online webinar on 9 November 2026 asking how artificial intelligence is reshaping the way people look for
A Czech edition of Alister McGrath's widely used introduction to Christian theology is on its way, and its publication is the occasion for an Evangelical Forum built around
Before worship could begin, the room had to be scrubbed. On Sunday 20 September 1953, seven Caribbean Christians gathered at the YMCA on Stafford Street in Wolverhampton for the first
Where does a church plant actually come from? An essay at The Gospel Coalition by Ryan Curia works through Paul’s first missionary journey in Acts 13–14 for nine
A growing number of churches across the United Kingdom are taking baptism out of the building and into open water. In the summer of 2025, around 1,000 people from