Three Illinois counties are among the top 40 locations in the nation where young people are moving. American mobility is at its lowest level since 1999. In 2017, the latest reporting year, 32.4 million people moved. Younger people, more footloose than the rest of the population, made up a big chunk of those relocations. You […]
Why Illinois matters: Headlines affirm church influence urgently needed—especially here
Editor’s note: The 2019 Mission Illinois Offering and Week of Prayer is Sept. 8-15. Several recent news stories have left us surprised, even stunned. The report that, at the stroke of the governor’s pen, LGBT history will be part of the Illinois public school curriculum starting next year leaves some Christian parents wondering how to […]
The New Reality: More believers fly under the radar
Christians aren’t as public with their faith as they used to be. In a new study by LifeWay Research, about two-thirds of Protestants said other people know they are Christians, but a growing number are less open. 39% of people who regularly attend Protestant churches say conversations about spiritual matters do not come up in […]
Millennials’ LGBT unease grows
An eight-mile trip into the countryside ended at an old barn which had been converted into a restaurant. “The food’s good here,” one of the travelers said as we set out after the Sunday service on winding rural and sometimes gravel roads. The former feed store set in cornfields was everything Cracker Barrel would hope […]
Grilled, not toasted
Two things surprised me about my ordination: the interview was not nearly as painful as I anticipated, and it was scheduled 90 minutes prior to the evening service where I was to be set apart for God’s use. What if I fail the test? I thought. My mother drove 10 hours to attend the service. […]
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