Drawing from his personal and professional experiences and applying a uniquely "fact-based theology" supported by more than 1,000 footnoted authorities, his new book, "Discipleship Training I: Living ...

The mandate is clear: “Go and make disciples.” It’s the final, foundational command Jesus gave before ascending to heaven, the very heartbeat of the Church. Yet, new data from Lifeway Research’s ...

On behalf of The Navigators and NavPress, Barna Group studies the state of Protestant spiritual growth. Protestant pastors are too hard on their churches. Either that, or churchgoers are too easy on ...

The widening divide between casual Christianity and committed discipleship presents both our greatest challenge and our most important opportunity. While our congregations successfully attract ...

Discipleship is a topic we often don’t give enough time and emphasis to in churches today. If we boil it down to its essentials, there are basically three facets to discipleship: (1) becoming a ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran theologian, wrote a series of reflections on the Sermon on the Mount entitled The Cost of Discipleship, in which he maintained that discipleship requires us to ...

What is the underlying cultural script or metanarrative that guides the values and lives of 21st-century North Americans? And in what ways does the Bible offer an alternative and opposing cultural ...

In 1999, Oblate Fr. Ronald Rolheiser published The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. It was an author's dream, selling some 250,000 copies and establishing Rolheiser as a beloved ...

St. Catherine University has received a second $1 million grant from Lilly Endowment to fund the Partnership for ...

In the late 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, then the most promising Protestant theologian in Germany, wrote a book entitled in English The Cost of Discipleship. Several years afterward he was arrested and ...