Why Churches Should Give Gifted Women a Chance

From her several decades of experience in women’s ministries and in seminary classrooms, Alice Mathews has gained an appreciation for the gifts godly women offer the church. In Gender Roles and the People of God: Rethinking What We Were Taught about…

Three Keys to Increasing Church Planting Capacity in Denominations

A generation of Christians that has grown up with microwaves is also sold on the idea of movements. But rarely do these things go together. Movements are not instantaneous—they can explode (that’s what makes them movements) but they don’t just…

Immigrants Are Reshaping American Missions 

Only four families own homes in Mario Salamanca’s Los Angeles-area congregation, which nonetheless spends thousands of dollars on missions each year. The knocking roused Valentin Salamanca from bed around 4 a.m. He was not sleeping anyway. He feared they would…