Leaders forum draws crowd to Sin City
NORTH LAS VEGAS, NEV. — Just 9 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, Christians gathered at the North Las Vegas Church of Christ to tackle…
Archive: Mar 2025
Healing bodies — and souls — in a Buddhist nation
MOUNG RUESSEI, CAMBODIA — On the grounds of a Buddhist temple, a crowd gathered in the shade of a mango tree. Adolescent monks, adorned in…
Surviving a pandemic
ABILENE, TEXAS — “Before the pandemic.” “Since the pandemic.” Those phrases mark time for us now the way “before the war” and “after the war”…
Lessons amid pandemic loss
Five years ago, COVID-19 turned the world upside down. On a Sunday in mid-March, numerous Churches of Christ in the U.S. and abroad canceled regular…
$171 million for better sermons
MALIBU, CALIF. — Fun and sun in Southern California. Pizza and drinks on the beach. Thirty-one active and aspiring Christian preachers experienced these tangible benefits…
Church-supported nonprofit loses, then regains, USAID funding after reprieve from Elon Musk
Last Wednesday, Mark Moore sent an urgent message to the factory that packages a life-saving peanut butter called MANA: Stop putting USAID labels on the…
Dolly Parton’s longtime husband, who had ties to Churches of Christ, dies at 82
NASHVILLE, TENN. — "Mr. & Mrs. Carl Dean.” The black-and-white picture of the newlywed couple appeared in a 1966 directory of the Radnor Church of Christ…
Why go back to Ukraine?
KYIV, UKRAINE — “Church and family.” Marina Noyes said it over and over when asked why she and her husband, Jim, came back to Ukraine.…
