We liked him so much when he guest posted, we’ve asked Paul Vander Klay to be a regular Think Christian contributor. Thankfully, he said yes!   He’s no stranger to TC as he’s been hanging out and commenting on posts for some time.
Paul is the pastor of the Living Stones Christian Reformed Church in [...]

On our summer vacation, my friend Ron was dreaming up a series of short videos to explore some church-goers’ foibles and bad assumptions. We spent some time chatting about worship—what it’s for, why we do it, how it’s structured, what the point is.
After months of percolation, this weekend he posted the results.
So, are you a [...]

You  may have seem this video on the news.  A 23-year-old Indiana man, Gregory Smith, was attempting to rob a bank clerk.  When the woman started crying and praying, Smith fell to his knee’s and started praying with her.  In a jailhouse interview with WRTV, Smith said:
It had to be God working through her because [...]

One of our recent polls asked for your general thoughts about online church.  The vast majority of you said you’d like online church to disappear from our culture just like hypercolor t-shirts.  It’s an argument I understand.  There is a lot of debate on whether online community is as genuine as in person relationships.
And good [...]

Last month, we had a little conversation about comment quality here in the Think Christian community.  First off, I want to say thanks for all of the great discussion the past month and a half.  I feel like the commenting has been good and thoughtful.
As promised, we want to feature a handful of comments that [...]

That’s a fair question considering TC is all about the conversation in the comments section.
We ran in to some unexpected issues with upgrades to WordPress and Disqus this week. We’re working on fixing the problem and we appreciate your patience.
(Thursday morning update:  The comments are back, even though it says “0 comments” under each [...]

I recently returned from my daughter’s college freshman orientation at her chosen Christian liberal arts school. Aside from my subtle beginning-of-the-empty-nest crisis, I’m stoked to see the opportunities for intellectual, spiritual, and emotional growth sprouting all along my daughter’s path.
I was especially thrilled to read some of the orientation materials that read almost as a [...]

A trending hashtag—or popular topic label—on Twitter this week was “failed children’s book titles.” (You can search the hashtag here, but be warned that many of the tweets with that tag have been offensive; here are a few of my favorites—all clean.) The idea was to take a familiar children’s book title and change a [...]

Rolling Hills Baptist Church in Fayetteville, GA has received a lot of press lately for the decision to sell its brand new building and use the money to take care of those in need in the community. The $1.4 million dollar new facility is nearly paid off, but the congregation overwhelmingly voted to put the [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about commenting lately. As the one who ends up moderating most of the comments, I’m always wondering how the TC conversation will go based on comments that are approved. In general, the policy has always been to be light handed in moderating to allow the conversation to naturally flow. Very [...]