Here are seven disruptive church trends to look for in 2026.
Evangelical Alliance offers 5 mission predictions for 2026
If 2025 was the year of the “Quiet Revival”, what does 2026 have in store for Christianity in Britain?
Drawing both on research and anecdotal evidence and experience, Phil Knox, writing for the Evangelical Alliance, has outlined five “missional trends” he expects to see this year.
Is a Gen Z Religious Rebound Happening?
Christianity maintains its recent stability, but the story of a religious rebound for Gen Z remains complicated.
Love the Church You’re In
Every church faces undeserved blessings and unsolvable problems at the same time. I'm learning two lessons from this reality.
Diocese of the Susquehanna’s Harrisburg Office Will Be Housed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Come February, the new Episcopal Diocese of the Susquehanna will establish its Harrisburg Office in the same building as St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 248 Seneca Street. The Bethlehem Office of the diocese will remain at 321 Wyandotte Street in Bethlehem.
Being the Love Church
For the Rev. Guy Leemhuis, vicar of St. Luke’s of the Mountains in La Crescenta, California, leaning into a message of love means blending an Episcopal ethos with a handful of new and unexplored traditions. For Leemhuis and his leadership team, there is a willingness to do what hasn’t been done before and be present to the community around them.
New pipe organ signals rebirth for Episcopal parish after fire, flood and 'plague'
The Church of the Epiphany’s new pipe organ was hand-built in Utah before being delivered by a semitrailer to the church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Growing with the Grain of Creation
How do we grow churches and Christians in ways that work with the grain of creation rather than against it?
The Church Didn’t Reject Biblical Teaching on Sexual Sin—It Quietly Drifted From It
How did an area Scripture speaks about plainly become one of the hardest topics for the church to address?
Attentive Preaching
This exercise, if you will indulge me, is a reflection on what I think I am doing when I preach. Like almost all practitioners of a literary form, my method has developed only partly through explicit training. What I do is a combination of preachers that I’ve enjoyed (and reacting to preachers that I haven’t enjoyed!), finding my way intuitively week by week into the task at hand, and adapting from other literary forms - novels, poems, films, history, and even films.
Be Careful How You Listen To Sermons
Sunday morning is a pivotal time for the New Testament Christian. God has promised to speak to his people through the preaching of the Word. Because of that, we should listen well.
AI is coming for your pastor and your trust
In this new year, an unexpected presence will slip into many church sanctuaries, quietly and almost politely: A line in the sermon that began as a chatbot prompt. A prayer drafted by an AI tool because the volunteer who normally writes it is exhausted. A bilingual announcement translated instantly for a mixed-language congregation.
Grok chatbot can undress women 'without their consent,' anti-exploitation group warns
Anti-sexual exploitation advocates are warning that Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, has the ability to generate nude or obscene images if users ask it to digitally alter pictures of real people.
‘Out came this image’
Abuse wasn’t just inevitable — it was actively encouraged and made possible by Musk and those in charge.
Take It from Me, Don’t Use AI to Cheat in School
In the age of AI, students are increasingly turning to cheating to coast through school. Even at a prestigious university like the one I attended, it’s common to see classmates in lecture halls citing points produced by ChatGPT or retrieving article summaries from Copilot. Others produce full-length essays in Gemini that are modified by “humanizers” to avoid plagiarism detection. Students can even outsource their exams using automated test-taking software.
Amid this generational transformation in information technology, Gen Zers struggle to choose integrity.
Defeating Hypocrisy in 2026
J. C. Ryle wrote, “No sin seems to be regarded by Christ as more sinful than hypocrisy.”
Being the Love Church
For the Rev. Guy Leemhuis, vicar of St. Luke’s of the Mountains in La Crescenta, California, leaning into a message of love means blending an Episcopal ethos with a handful of new and unexplored traditions. For Leemhuis and his leadership team, there is a willingness to do what hasn’t been done before and be present to the community around them.
New pipe organ signals rebirth for Episcopal parish after fire, flood and 'plague'
The Church of the Epiphany’s new pipe organ was hand-built in Utah before being delivered by a semitrailer to the church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
Growing with the Grain of Creation
How do we grow churches and Christians in ways that work with the grain of creation rather than against it?
The Church Didn’t Reject Biblical Teaching on Sexual Sin—It Quietly Drifted From It
How did an area Scripture speaks about plainly become one of the hardest topics for the church to address?
Attentive Preaching
This exercise, if you will indulge me, is a reflection on what I think I am doing when I preach. Like almost all practitioners of a literary form, my method has developed only partly through explicit training. What I do is a combination of preachers that I’ve enjoyed (and reacting to preachers that I haven’t enjoyed!), finding my way intuitively week by week into the task at hand, and adapting from other literary forms - novels, poems, films, history, and even films.
Be Careful How You Listen To Sermons
Sunday morning is a pivotal time for the New Testament Christian. God has promised to speak to his people through the preaching of the Word. Because of that, we should listen well.
AI is coming for your pastor and your trust
In this new year, an unexpected presence will slip into many church sanctuaries, quietly and almost politely: A line in the sermon that began as a chatbot prompt. A prayer drafted by an AI tool because the volunteer who normally writes it is exhausted. A bilingual announcement translated instantly for a mixed-language congregation.
Grok chatbot can undress women 'without their consent,' anti-exploitation group warns
Anti-sexual exploitation advocates are warning that Grok, a chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, has the ability to generate nude or obscene images if users ask it to digitally alter pictures of real people.
‘Out came this image’
Abuse wasn’t just inevitable — it was actively encouraged and made possible by Musk and those in charge.
Take It from Me, Don’t Use AI to Cheat in School
In the age of AI, students are increasingly turning to cheating to coast through school. Even at a prestigious university like the one I attended, it’s common to see classmates in lecture halls citing points produced by ChatGPT or retrieving article summaries from Copilot. Others produce full-length essays in Gemini that are modified by “humanizers” to avoid plagiarism detection. Students can even outsource their exams using automated test-taking software.
Amid this generational transformation in information technology, Gen Zers struggle to choose integrity.
Defeating Hypocrisy in 2026
J. C. Ryle wrote, “No sin seems to be regarded by Christ as more sinful than hypocrisy.”
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