26.2 miles of grit and gratitude
‘I thanked God so many times today,” said Katie Clark, a member of the Memorial Road Church of Christ in Oklahoma City, after she completed her…
Dialogue
An engineer gets ‘an answer from God’
Orneita Burton grew up playing in the dirt and, as she put it, “creating something out of nothing.” Perhaps she was destined for a life…
A long-term love for European souls
Paul and Carol Brazle love telling the story of Jesus — in Flemish, English or even Spanish. For three decades, the couple has lived and…
The church must break its ‘Eerie Silence’
What bothers Ammar Saheli most is what Churches of Christ aren’t saying. That’s why the 48-year-old minister penned “Eerie Silence” (WestBow Press, 2018), a raw…
‘Hey, you messed up, but we still love you’
Since his first visit to a Dallas County jail in 1971, Buck Griffith has spent his life taking the Gospel behind bars. A minister for…
Preaching that hums, pleads and roars
David Wilson exhibits the trifecta of great gospel preaching: a love of God, a love for his people and a love for the truth. Affectionately…
‘Paradise is lost,’ but minister and wife escaped deadly wildfire ‘with the clothes on our back’
On Thursday morning, minister Joe Glenn got a call at his Paradise Church of Christ office. A friend in the 50-member Northern California congregation, which…
Is progressive Christianity dangerous?
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — “We don’t want to be known for the things we’re against,” said David Young. “We want to be known for what we’re for.”…
A Bible for every tribe, every tongue
For Rett Parker, Mum’s the word. It’s many words, actually — an entire language of them, spoken by villagers in the Madang province of Papua…
Keeping Christian education on mission
David R. Shannon remembers the day when E. Claude Gardner walked into the sawmill near Centerville, Tenn., where Shannon was working and asked him to…
