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 ...

Not every story helps the preaching moment. Three views. Years ago, my church-going uncle, observing a tiny grandchild struggling to carry a Christmas present almost as big as he was, slyly intoned, ...

On Sunday I attended a worship service at which the air was heavy with a sense of loss. But I saw the church being the church at its best. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...