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he subject line of Ellen's email read, 'Urgent.' Her job in the fashion industry placed her on a team with a woman whose presence she had recently begun to dread. [...]

In the 1990s, I was introduced to a new technology that only required my attention every three days or so: the Internet. I would plug the phone cord into my [...]

Antonio is a man in his 50s who works on a fruit and vegetable farm in Dutchess County, New York. From sunup to sundown six days a week, he spends [...]

I knew something had changed when I started systematically watching reruns of my favorite TV show, 'Friday Night Lights.' Netflix, you see, is a dangerous invention. And over the past [...]

I was an early and enthusiastic proponent of multisite church. It was thrilling to launch new satellite campuses and be able to extend the church's influence overnight. A new site [...]

THE BOOK View from the Top An Inside Look at How the People in Power See and Shape the World (Wiley, 2014) by D. Michael Lindsay THE IDEA D. Michael [...]

People aren't leaving church; they're attending fewer services. Has the trend of declining attendance hit your church yet? Researcher Thom Rainer surmises that the drop in average attendance numbers might [...]

When a friend like Toni, with 42 years in the ministry, says that he has come across something new, I stop and listen. As our meeting was breaking up, I [...]

WHEN HOUSE of Mercy was founded in 1996, having a membership roll wasn't on its radar. 'There were maybe 30 people at church,' explained Debbie Blue, who has copastored the [...]

A few years ago I volunteered at an event put on by a national youth ministry. The evening was fun but grueling. We bobbed for apples, captured flags, and raced [...]

People love getting letters, and in the digital age, this ancient treat becomes rare. Many churches, however, have fostered old-fashioned interpersonal communique among the members by installing church mailboxes. What [...]