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“One day as I prayed in earnest, I broke through some sort of spirit wall and found God,” Dolly Parton wrote in her 1994 autobiography. “Not as a chastising, bombastic bully but as a friend I could talk to on a one-to-one basis. He is our father, after all.” The multi-award-winning country singer, songwriter, actress,

Seth Short has led worship for years. For the past seven months, the South Dakota native has been an associate pastor at The Point Church, a Wesleyan congregation in New Brunswick, Canada. His duties include directing the music ministry and leading worship, overseeing tech and production, managing youth ministry, and occasional preaching. Music ministry is

I’m starting to feel worse about feeling better after worship. Okay, mostly that’s a joke—and yet the more I eavesdrop on livestreamed worship services, the more sermon clips I watch on social media, the more contemporary Christian music I hear on Spotify, the more it seems to me that what many congregational leaders are aiming

This piece was adapted from Russell Moore’s newsletter. Subscribe here. Sometimes, when telling someone how to get to my house, I will say, “I’m just down the road from Dolly Parton.” For almost everybody in Nashville, that is almost a better locator than a pin on a GPS map. And it has never occurred to me, ever,

When Sammy Perez was released from federal prison, his worldly goods amounted to “a $25 check and a bus ticket, and pretty much a ‘good luck.’” He was a changed man from the 19-year-old whose grand larceny conviction had landed him a sentence of 11.5 years. His cellmate, Clarence, consistently shared the gospel with him,