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
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,
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
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
A recent “dustup” over a new book by R. Albert Mohler Jr. — president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — has put an old question back on the table: may the
A new worship song has been circulating on social media and raising eyebrows. “Dead Idols”, by the American singer-songwriter Bailey Redmond, includes the lyric “Buddha is dead, Muhammad’s
What belongs in the house of God? Writing in Premier Christianity, Tony Wilson reflects on St Paul's Cathedral's renewed partnership with Fabric, the London nightclub and
Does the sermon need to raise its voice to be heard? Writing in Premier Christianity, Dr Claire Williams — a UK academic and preacher — offers a gentle case for the quiet
The question of who writes the songs a congregation sings has moved from niche debate to a live pastoral concern. Writing in Premier Christianity, Kenny Klinglesmith — a worship songwriter who