For all the good of catholicity, an over-realized catholicity is potentially poisonous.

When Catholicity Leads to Compromise

Against the Reformation's backdrop of such vehemence and occasional violence, there are also sterling examples of Christian partnership and catholicity.

Martin Bucer as a Cooperating Pastor

Here are five lessons I have learned in the decade since I first arrived in an unfamiliar city with my husband, who had the task of planting a new church.

Lessons Learned from a Church Planter’s Wife

Pastors developing future leaders can help using these seven diagnostic questions.

Sending Out Future Leaders Strategically

Six church planters—national and international—explain how they wish they had counted the cost, which yields counsel for the rest of us.

Church Planting Roundtable: Counting the Cost

What do our churches mean by “catholic” when we recite the Nicene creed (381) and declare our belief in the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church?

What Is Catholicity and What Does It Require?

While churches are independent and autonomous, they also are interdependent for the sake of those who don’t know the Lord.

Partnering Together to Plant

Here are four clear reasons why you should consider not joining a new church plant.

Should I Stay or Should I Go? Advice for Members on Church Plants

I see a strong and growing catholicity among persecuted churches in China that churches in freer environments could learn from.

Cooperating Under Persecution 

Emphasizing the acumen of Wall Street and the values of Silicon Valley in what to look for in a planter distracts us from paying attention to the New Testament’s emphases—who a man is.

Pastor, Not Entrepreneur