42 articles from 34 issues, 1996 to 2026 · Page 4 of 4
How should pastors pray for renewal, and how will they know it when it comes? Charles Hambrick-Stowe draws five lessons from Jonathan Edwards for church leaders today: persistence, humility, piety, theology and holiness.
What does a hospital owe parents whose child dies before birth? Rhonda Lindamood and Cleo Williams describe the perinatal loss program nurses built at Carilion New River Valley Medical Center, from memory books and photographs to support groups and memorial services.
Why do so many parents who lose a child before birth find no place in the church to grieve? Susan Cyre describes her congregation’s memorial services for these families and prints the order of worship and litany it uses.
What does it take to hear the rooster crow? Donn Moomaw, a longtime pastor, tells how his presbytery’s discipline after his sexual misconduct became a means of mercy, and closes with suggestions for how a presbytery should treat the accused.
Calvin’s years in Geneva are often told as a struggle that ended in triumph. David Wright reads his letters and lectures to show a pastor who stayed through exile, illness and opposition, and asks what his example teaches a divided church.
Why did God let this happen? Pastor M. Craig Barnes says the myth of personal wholeness has made suffering an accusation, and he reads the missing fruit in Eden as a picture of what it means to be a thankful creature rather than a creator.
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