Enhancing Christian Spirit
There is a number worth pausing over: 90,000. That is how many full-time missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are now serving around the world — the highest total in the denomination's history, announced on September 18, 2026. (source) But...
The cultural moment facing Christian leaders in 2026 is, according to new research from Barna Group, both a story of decline and a story of renewal — at the same time. New data from Barna's State of the Church initiative, conducted in partnership with Gloo, identifies...
For a century, the story of the church in the United Kingdom has been one of steady numerical decline. That narrative may be changing — and the shift has caught many observers by surprise. The Evangelical Alliance, the UK's largest network of churches, published its...
It started with a hammock, a bad day, and a man reading a Bible on the beach. Rees Morgan was a Project 3000 explorer with the International Mission Board, newly arrived in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, in West Africa. He was tired, discouraged, and struggling...
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash The number of AI-powered Bible study tools has exploded in 2026. A search for "AI Bible app" now returns dozens of options — some built by large publishers, some by solo developers, some by nonprofits, and some by for-profit startups...
Two years ago, Nigerian pastor Jerry Eze arrived at Twickenham Stadium in London — the world's largest rugby venue, capable of seating 82,000 people — and for a moment, he wondered whether he had made a mistake. The arena seemed impossibly vast, the rows of seats...
The late Christian leader Ben Merold was fond of saying, "Methods are many. Principles are few. Methods change often. Principles never do." That quote opens the September 2026 issue of Christian Standard magazine, whose theme is "Discipleship in a Digital Age" — a...
The Himalayan nation of Nepal has long been known as the world's last Hindu kingdom — a country of breathtaking peaks, ancient temples, and deep spiritual traditions. What most people do not know is that Christianity is growing there, often quietly, sometimes at great...
The Himalayan nation of Nepal has long been known as the world's last Hindu kingdom — a country of breathtaking peaks, ancient temples, and deep spiritual traditions. What most people do not know is that Christianity is growing there, often quietly, sometimes at great...
The mental image many Christians still carry of a missionary — a Westerner in a remote village, building a church, staying for decades — is not wrong. But it describes a far narrower slice of missionary work than it once did. In 2026, the landscape of global Christian...