When you make it loving and redemptive. (Ed. note: Ken Sande says publicly disciplining sinful and wanton church members is good for the church, and it’s good for the one disciplined. Then why do so ...

Growing up I had some really great youth coaches in baseball and basketball.Men like Bob Stafford, Art Shea, Armand Gendreau, and Bob Cabral. At the high school level I was blessed to be taught ...

(RNS) When Karen Hinkley decided to have her marriage annulled, she had no idea it would lead to a public shaming from one of the largest megachurches in America. After learning her husband was ...

I want to treat others the way I’d want to be treated when needing reproof. Debbie was a young woman in our congregation who had a knack for touching lives. One day she told me something that was ...

Some conservative Christians are promoting a more aggressive approach to church discipline. But others say this approach does more damage than good. When Karen Hinkley decided to have her marriage ...

The recent church discipline case gone wrong at The Village Church has taken the Christian world by storm. While church leaders issued a public apology, the situation that led to the apology is much ...

Not a peep was heard from the Catholic bishops about this [UPDATE: Three peeps were heard, and three cheers for these bishops. — RD] — and this got Protestant theologian Carl Trueman to thinking.

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