Funeral of Cliff Barrows

Gleanings Five Men Sentenced to Death for Burning Christian Couple Alive Ruling on 2014 incident is rare moment of justice for Pakistani Christians facing blasphemy allegations. World Watch Monitor

Gleanings Died: Russell Shedd, Brazil's Top Evangelical Theologian Longtime missionary's books trained generations of pastors. Marcos Simas and Carlos Fernandes

The Exchange Increasing Evangelism in Church Planting Can our people articulate a simple gospel message and call men and women to faith in Jesus Christ? Ed Stetzer

The Exchange What I Want Pastors to Know About Women's Ministry Is the local church meeting the needs of half the congregation? Sharon Hodde Miller

Re-Word God Is Not Out to Get You The Lord delights in you and sings over you. Can you believe it? Jeremy Treat

Women Cohousing: The New American Family How alternative forms of living are changing communities, challenging the church, and keeping millennials in the fold. Liuan Huska

The Exchange Four Life Lessons from the Funeral of Cliff Barrows Billy Graham's long-time song leader and choir director remembered in North Carolina Ed Stetzer

The Local Church These Churches Fought Domestic Poverty with the Gospel—and It Worked 'To preach the gospel effectively to jobless folks, I need to show them that I care about their situation here on Earth.' Catherine Parks

Book Review Does Protestantism Need to Die? Or to recover its riches? Two Protestant luminaries look at the legacy of the Reformation, 500 years later. Fred Sanders

Gleanings White Evangelicals Grade Trump, Republicans, and the Media Pew looks at satisfaction with the election, and what voters think the new president should do first. Kate Shellnutt

Book Review Thanksgiving Gets the Hallmark Treatment How sentimentalism distorts the holiday's past and present. Robert Tracy McKenzie