Churches need grace, tact, sensibility
Erma Williams was one of 645 respondents to The Christian Chronicle’s survey, “A closer look at Churches of Christ in the U.S.” We found her…
Dialogue
Historically black and crucial to our future
He was only 3 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and Marshall Keeble, pioneering African-American minister for Churches of Christ, died after…
‘If Christians don’t believe in a literal Genesis, they have no foundation for their doctrine’
EDMOND, Okla. — Ken Ham, a nationally known creationist who rejects Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, made headlines recently when he was invited, then disinvited…
More on #ChurchToo — Our expanded Q&A with Jimmy Hinton on sexual abuse in churches
For Jimmy Hinton, there was no question: He had to do the right thing, even though it meant turning in his own father. In 2011,…
‘No matter how broken we may be’
The Christian Chronicle received 645 responses to our survey, “A closer look at Churches of Christ in the U.S.” So many of our readers blessed…
A conversation with Lee and Leslie Strobel
He’s an investigative reporter by training and a believer in Christ by choice. While working for The Chicago Tribune, atheist Lee Strobel put his skills…
‘We are preparing the soil, planting the seed’
After more than 50 years of ministry to students from around the world, Sylvia Duncan lives the words of Galatians 6:9: “Let us not become…
Growing up African, American and Christian
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — African. Immigrant. Student. Poet. Musician. Writer. It takes a lot of words to describe Israel Anfangideh — hardly surprising since he has something…
They are not my songs; they are the church’s
Konstantin Zhigulin wrote his first two hymns within the first week after he and his wife, Lina, were baptized in the Siberian city of Barnaul.…
After Harvey, ‘churches have done far more than the government’
BEAUMONT, Texas — Tony Williams is tired. However, he insists he’s not burned out. Two months after Hurricane Harvey, the Westgate Church of Christ — where…
