In 2021, "the American Bible Society collected and analyzed the State of the Bible data, collaborating with Barna to highlight the connections between the Bible and the broader story of faith in America." In May of 2021, they released their findings, highlighting five key findings. 

Join your Calvary Conversations hosts for a discussion of this article, of the various trends in Americans' Bible engagement, and for insight into how to it translates into real life ministry. 

Barriers, conflicts and even crises are common in ministry. The church is people, and people are sinful. So, where do pastors and ministry leaders turn when a problem arises and threatens the health of the church?

According to a 2021 Barna poll, almost 4 out of every 10 pastors are thinking about quitting!

How does the Incarnation of Christ provide encouragement and hope to every generation of believers who seek to be faithful to Christ?

How can a pro-lifer have a productive conversation with a pro-choicer? 

It won't always be easy, but it may not be as impossible as you may think. It's a matter of perspective. How do you view the other person? As a pro-life advocate, it can be easy to think only of the issue -- and it's a very important issue. But, we should also think of the person who holds the view as a person created in God's image with the potential of becoming another advocate for life. 

Calvary's Shaun LePage invited Kathy Edwards, CEO of Resource Health Services in Kansas City, to have a discussion about how to have productive conversations with those who are not yet pro-life. 

Change. Most people don’t like it – but everyone faces it. 

Some changes are necessary for a church or organization to survive – but some are very superficial. So how can ministry leaders determine what and why and when and how to make appropriate changes? 

Join today’s conversation between Dr. Mike Dodds, a Calvary University Ministry Studies Professor, and Dr. Richard Bargas, Executive Director of IFCA International, about this significant topic of ministry leadership and navigating change in ministry.

Something you already know: Christian leaders face many challenges.

In this second conversation, Calvary's Timothy Hange and Dr. Scott Edgar discuss how Christian leaders and professionals can discover and pursue their unique pathway to professional and personal success.

For over twenty-five years, Dr. Edgar, founder of Pathways to Success Executive Coaching, has served in pastoral ministry, international missions, non-profit organizations, and Christian higher education. From this deep bench of experience he has focused on developing training leaders for a wide-range of ministries.

When we engage in summer short-term missions trips we often have the best of intentions. However, sometimes the things we don't know that we don't know can get in the way. Join Joshua Paxton and Dr. Mark Hedinger for a discussion on cultural preparation for summer missions trips.

Learn more about Calvary University at calvary.edu, and the Burnham Center for Global Engagement on the campus of Calvary University at calvary.edu/burnham-center-for-global-engagement. 

Learn more about Culture Bound at culturebound.org.

How can we have productive conversations with people who struggle with gender dysphoria? Do we debate? Try to convince them we’re right and they’re wrong? Do we just ignore them?

What if thousands—or even millions—of Christians in a city or region could work together? Pray together? Share God's word together?

This is the dream of The Sending Project. Calvary’s Joshua Paxton invited Karen Blankenship, Program Director of The Sending Project, to discuss the lofty goal of “building citywide awareness, community, and collaboration among the Church for the purpose of mission—for the purpose of getting the good news of Jesus and the demonstrated love of Jesus to Kansas City and beyond, even to the ends of the earth.”