by Alex Lillenberg | I briefly worked for a church that routinely practiced an alter call and sinners prayer to the same 65 congregants each week.  While the sermon varied in analogy and text, the final 30 minutes of the Sunday morning sermon came to the same conclusion, we must pray a certain prayer to […]

| by Phil Steiner I want to believe that most of these short-term mission trips have a goal of serving and helping those they are going to serve. I want to believe that most youth groups do care about the poor and what they are doing to help those on the underside of life. I […]

By David Miller | In the Fall of 2013, I attended the first class held at Kilns College. In the backroom of a Bend, Oregon storefront, a children’s pastor, an under-employed graphic designer, a Greek Orthodox maverick, a couple of redheads from the midwest, a counselor in his late 40s, a yoga instructor from Portland, […]