Inside Story
‘This is going to be one really cool obituary’
OKLAHOMA CITY — It’s a call you never want to receive. “I’ve got cancer,” your loved one says. Not only that, but it’s pancreatic cancer…
July/August 2026
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Inside Story: ‘This is going to be one really cool obituary’ • Refugees stuck in limbo • Church helps homeless son of late Yankees TV cameraman • Christians only — or the only Christians? • Three minutes that saved a life • ‘Cancer can be a ministry’ • Katrina survivors launch an inner-city summer camp • A Big Easy Sunday • A teen’s faith outshines cancer • Texas church offers ‘a final embrace’ to honor flood victims • Across the Nation: A first century VBS, gold in the men’s triple jump and more quick takes • Love among the ruins • For Churches of Christ in Spain, Venezuela quakes strike close to home • Around the World: A balloon sword, door-knocking campaign, soccer tournament and more quick takes •Insight: A good choice and a bittersweet baptism • Ministering with microphones • Views: Trust — or blame • Review: A faith-based approach to real-world leadership • Editorial: More than just memories
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Refugees stuck in limbo
HOUSTON — Liza Sharii-Yukabovska fled her native Ukraine four years ago after Russia attacked its Eastern European neighbor. In the U.S., the mother — who…
Inside Story
Church helps homeless son of late Yankees TV cameraman
HOUSTON — When Maurice Costabile first showed up at a Houston church a few years ago, members had no clue his late father, Duilio, was a…
National
Christians only — or the only Christians?
‘You think you’re the only ones going to heaven.” That’s an accusation — merited or not — familiar to many members of today’s Churches of…
People
‘Cancer can be a ministry’
DICKSON, TENN. — The sound of victory echoed throughout the halls of Nashville’s Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center on May 7 as Chris McCurley pulled the rope…
National
Katrina survivors launch an inner-city summer camp
NEW ORLEANS — Willie Marsalis remembers the night he and his parents spent camping on a crowded bridge, surrounded by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina,…
Insight
A Big Easy Sunday
NEW ORLEANS — It wasn’t one of those side hugs, a “Hi, nice to meet you” hug. When I walked into the Hollygrove Church of…
People
A teen’s faith outshines cancer
CELINA, TENN. — “We love Mitchell.” That phrase has echoed through the pews of Beech Bethany Church of Christ, across group texts and hospital rooms,…
National
Texas church offers ‘a final embrace’ to honor flood victims
More than 200 residents of Kerr County — victims of the devastating July 4, 2025, floods in Central Texas that killed at least 138 people…
National
Across the Nation: A first century VBS, gold in the men’s triple jump and more quick takes
Across the Nation is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ across the U.S. Got an idea for this…
Love among the ruins
Digging through the remains of collapsed buildings, Christians in Venezuela searched for survivors after back-to-back devastating earthquakes shook the troubled South American nation. “Many of…
International
For Churches of Christ in Spain, Venezuela quakes strike close to home
MADRID — Juan Lázaro had already prepared his Sunday message when back-to-back earthquakes devastated Venezuela. So the elder of the Church of Christ on Teruel…
International
Around the World: A balloon sword, door-knocking campaign, soccer tournament and more quick takes
Around the World is our monthly rundown of news briefs, links and quotes from Churches of Christ all over the globe. Got an idea for…
Insight
A good choice and a bittersweet baptism
MADILL, OKLA. — Lucy, you never got to meet your grandmother, my mom. Mimi. We found out you were on the way just a few…
National
Ministering with microphones
After three and a half years, The Christian Chronicle Podcast is going to sound — and look — a little different. Wes McAdams and Marcus…
Views
Trust — or blame?
What do you do when you are on the tightrope of life ... and there is no net? We really have but two choices: Trust…
Reviews
A faith-based approach to real-world leadership
Effective leadership requires a wide range of skills. We must understand how to deliver hard feedback, lead meetings and develop our teams. At the same…
Editorial
Editorial: More than just memories
In one of my earliest memories, I’m 3 or 4 years old and sitting on the lap of a woman from church, crying. We’re under…
People
Teen whose faith outshone his cancer dies
Mitchell Boles, a 17-year-old church member whose faith outshone his cancer, died Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. He was 17. Boles, who attended the Beech Bethany…