Articles for Pastors

Unfortunately, many nonbelievers know only two kinds of Christians: those who speak the truth without grace and those who are very nice but never share the truth. What they need is a third type of Christian—one who, in a spirit of grace, loves them enough to humbly and speak with kindness the truth.

I adopted crying as a daily spiritual practice, spending a few minutes of each day in tears. Intentional weeping would recalibrate my entire emotional baseline and kick off a decade of frequent tears that changed how I relate to other people.

I stepped into a crosswalk where, until just before it hit me, I didn’t see a bus coming. I still can’t unsee what I saw in that moment. I needed to go through the accident to understand what happens to victims of sexual abuse and how trauma works. I thought I had understood, but I did not.

In 1967, Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina, made history as the first Southern Baptist Church to ordain a woman—Addie Davis—to pastoral...

Conversations about and calls for racial justice are everywhere today.Instead of tuning out, I’m trying to cultivate some resilience in my life and leadership.

COVID at church? The lockdowns to combat COVID-19 interrupted nearly every aspect of American life. One of the most controversial aspects was the closure of churches. But as an analyst of religious data, I believe evidence shows a correlation between attending church and the spread of COVID-19.

I was recently asked to share my thoughts about Beth Moore and the future of the Southern Baptist Convention. Here are my observations as a Southern Baptist woman who is also a complementarian.

It is hard to imagine what it would be like to be singled out as the only person on earth for something. That is...