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Subscribe to this Podcast:Steve Cuss has a special burden for pastors and church staff. As someone who spent 27 years in such roles, he knows the unique challenges personally. On this episode, Cuss shares some of his own journey, including how he struggled with conflating his identities as a child of God and what felt like being an employee of God. Cuss talks about the gap between what we believe […]

|Twenty years ago, I got stuck in the back of a van with a rather dull missionary.All of us missionaries were on some trip, and I found myself preparing for hours of driving with this man as my companion. I didn’t know him, but I sensed that if we got to talking, then some political and cultural differences were going to become painfully obvious.In short, I judged this man, fiercely, […]

The world is a confusing place right now. We believe that faithful proclamation of the gospel is what our hostile and disoriented world needs. Do you believe that too? Help TGC bring biblical wisdom to the confusing issues across the world by making a gift to our international work.Some places in God’s creation get under your skin: the Faroe Islands can haunt you, with the world-class beauty of fjords knifing […]

Premier Christianity uses cookies Read our cookie policy.By Chris Llewellyn2024-03-21T15:51:00+00:00Rend Collective’s Chris Llewellyn has been on the receiving end of abuse hurled by Christian protesters. It’s got him thinking - who would Jesus shout at?Source: Shauna Hundeby / Alamy Stock PhotoI received a megaphone-amplified greeting last night as I walked off the tour bus. And it shook me.“That man is wicked and he is bound for hell!” screamed an angry protester through a loudhailer.It’s […]

It has now been over a decade since former Archbishop Rowan Williams declared to the Daily Telegraph that the United Kingdom is a ‘post-Christian Nation’. Indeed, for a country less than a month away from a General Election, there has been a notable absence of religion as a factor in the campaigns.Whilst in the United States, coverage of political appeals to voting blocs of ‘white evangelicals’ or of ‘souls to […]

I’m not well-versed in the roster or vocabulary of Christian saints. Shockingly enough, it wasn’t a core part of the curriculum for me at Hebrew school. Judaism as a religion is famously focused on the head honcho, something that has made prayers much simpler but greatly reduced my access to cool necklace pendants. Therefore, most of my knowledge of Catholic lore (which I’m pretty sure is not what they call it) […]

I don’t, you know, feel God’s presence like I used to. What’s wrong with me?”“I’m not sure if I really even believe in Jesus. Can I?”“My Christian high school never taught me about racism in America. What do I do with what I’m learning? How can I ever go back to that kind of Christianity again? Should I?”I am privileged to sit with Christian young people as they ask questions […]

October 13, 2019, seemed like every other Sunday. And it was—until it wasn’t.My sermon that day on Genesis 1:27 unexpectedly made national headlines, changing my life, our church, and the relationship our church had built with our community.Since then, I’ve reflected on what transpired and how the things that we learned might help other churches as they prepare to teach on sexuality and gender.In the fall of 2019, we started […]

Engineer Barbara Res was a vice president of the Trump Organization who worked for the company for eighteen years. She then quit, in 1998, due to Donald Trump’s alleged mistreatment of her. So, she knew The Donald quite well.Today, Ms. Res appeared on Ali Velshi’s MSNBC Velshi news TV program. The most newsworthy statement she made in her criticism of Donald Trump was that he once made a joke about […]