Church Marketing Lab: Non-Existent to Top 90
Church Marketing Lab stories really get me fired up. At its best, it's a truly incredible tool to help churches communicate with excellence. Take the story of Park Community Church. New Logo? It all started as they were getting ready to ...

Louis Lamonica of Hosanna Church Ponchatoula Trial
“AMITE — The Hosanna Church child-rape trial defendant is the former leader of a Christian cult with congregants who veered from mainstream charismatic teachings by focusing on prophetically inspired public confessions and by vomiting ...

Daycare Fight Club: At Church, Of Course
Swain said the two female teachers — one who was employed for six years and the other for 18 months — told church leaders they tried to stop the fighting in their classroom. The church launched an investigation and contacted authorities ...

A Neighboring Church
I had never visited this particular church before but have heard great reports of what God is doing with this congregation, so I decided to attend their midweek service and to just sit in and worship with them. ...

Kirk Franklin Takes T-Pain To Church
I’m watching the Democratic National Convention. Are you? Moving along, Kirk Franklin had a nice little chat with Teddy Penherazzdown about turning Franklin’s 1993 gospel hit “Silver and Gold” into a song about getting his drank on. ...

From Gracepoint Fellowship SF Church
These were bookends to our church - the oldest and the youngest churches doing the very same thing. 1400 students at Berkeley, 90 at Austin. It does not get old. Though it is on one hand the same thing, it is still new, ...

Galileo still causing trouble for the Catholic Church
Despite the fact that we're all largely agreed on the fact that the Earth revolves around the Sun (without wishing to forget the Flat Earth Society), Galileo continues to cause problems for the Catholic Church. ...

mostly final thoughts on "The Church on the Island"
The moment Charlotte decides that it is time to leave the island and not spend the rest of her life as a caretaker for the church performing daily ritual to keep the “darkness” at bay, the priest tells her that she is already forgotten, ...

Community-centered Church
To plant a church is to cultivate a community, not launch a service. Church planting requires sweaty work with people; patience, allowing the plant to grow; and tenderness with the plant. In other words, if we want to cultivate ...

The Church on the Beach
A huge inflatable black and fuscia church on the sand is what the youth of Campomarino found.

Rev. Schenck Meets and Talks Church with Sarah Palin, VP Pick for ...
Contact: Peggy Birchfield, 202-546-8329, ext 103; Rev. Rob Schenck, 703-447-7686 mobile; both with National Clergy Council DAYTON, Ohio, Aug. 29 /Christian Newswire/ -- Rev. Rob Schenck (pronounced SHANK) was present on the platform in ...

Practicing the Gospel in Community: Congregational Church Polity
Congregational church polity (or government) is the belief that the highest earthly authority within a local church is the congregation itself. Positively, congregationalism argues that a majority of the church’s membership determines ...

Union of Church and Ballet Is a Dream Fulfilled
The Shakespearean ballet centers on “a wall between two families,” but Fedotov’s production relies on an unusual bridge between his ballet ensemble and a church. With its Sergey Prokofiev score played live by the Kiev Symphony Orchestra ...

Union of Church and Ballet Is a Dream Fulfilled
Villagers in The Archers' village of Ambridge defeated plans to rip out their local church's pews. Yet trendy vicars across the land continue to remove them, believing - wrongly - that replacing them with individual seats make their ...