Faith & Culture

The church has used the arts to share God's story. Believers today still use the transcendence of creative expression in worship.

Believers are not limited to church or religious settings as a vehicle for artistic expression. Many have found mainstream audiences receptive to a sacred, uplifting word.

Missouri ocularist Carolyn O'Neill ministers through her vocation in Haiti and in St. Louis by fitting, shaping and painting ocular prostheses for those who have lost the organ due to disease or injury.

Churches can help address the distinctive needs incarcerated women face behind bars and upon release.

Humankind has struggled with the matter of mental disorders — or mental illness — as long as people can remember. In Jesus' day -- and today -- people feared what they didn't understand. What can churches do to reach out?

Christians who debate the merits of burial versus cremation may miss a larger issue —- helping people deal with the reality of death, some ministers insist.

People need prayer, and they need it as an integral part of worship. That philosophy keeps access to prayer open during all worship services at Gold Hill Baptist church in Chalfont St. Peter, England.

John 17:11-23 records Jesus’ fervent prayer that his followers would be united as the Savior and the Father are. Through the disciples’ unity as they were sent out, the world would know God. Jesus still sends out his followers. Could that mission to reach the world help unite them? Yes and no, according to two theologians.

Living simply is, well, pretty simple, some believe.

Evangelicals traditionally have referred to it as a “call to vocational or Christian ministry” or simply “the call.” What is it?