GoFish! Ministries takes kids out on Washington's Snake River to share life together and earn money through a state program that pays anglers to catch an aggressive species of fish.
Americans may think that most scientists are atheists or even adversaries of religion, but that's not the case. And welcoming scientists and scientific ideas into our congregations could help our youth, says a researcher who has studied the issue.
It's easy to see how teaching, scholarship, preaching, counseling and other activities are the work of ministry. But it may be harder to understand how being an administrator in a Christian institution is also the work of the gospel, says Donald Senior, president emeritus of Catholic Theological Union and the author of a book on the subject.
Deeply and faithfully loving and caring for oneself is enough -- it's not just a pause between activities, writes a seminary professor and psychologist.
If your ministry is no longer achieving its intended impact, it may be time to ask why. Probing a ministry's purpose and progress may reveal that it's time to reverse course and start again.
We've celebrated church as "family" without ever clarifying what kind of family we're called to be, says an adoptive mother in this sermon. What kind of family is the church if not an adopted one?
Join us for Foundations of Christian Leadership in Washington, D.C., where we will draw on the rich resources of the surrounding community as we imagine and listen together to how God is stirring in our world, in our church and in our lives.
