On behalf of The Navigators and NavPress, Barna Group studies the state of Protestant spiritual growth. Protestant pastors are too hard on their churches. Either that, or churchgoers are too easy on ...

The mandate is clear: “Go and make disciples.” It’s the final, foundational command Jesus gave before ascending to heaven, the very heartbeat of the Church. Yet, new data from Lifeway Research’s ...

In 1999, Oblate Fr. Ronald Rolheiser published The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. It was an author's dream, selling some 250,000 copies and establishing Rolheiser as a beloved ...

What is the underlying cultural script or metanarrative that guides the values and lives of 21st-century North Americans? And in what ways does the Bible offer an alternative and opposing cultural ...

The widening divide between casual Christianity and committed discipleship presents both our greatest challenge and our most important opportunity. While our congregations successfully attract ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Gloo and Barna Group have released the latest State of the Church research findings exploring the vital topic of discipleship and how it is practiced, perceived and prioritized across ...

In the late 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then the most promising Protestant theologian in Germany, wrote a book entitled in English The Cost of Discipleship. Several years afterward he was arrested and ...

When the Gospel of John contrasts walking in the day to walking at night, we know it refers to more than getting home before curfew. What may surprise us in today’s readings is that the story of the ...