The magazine typically includes:
- Sermons
- Doctrinal articles
- Editorials
- Book Reviews
Because it has been published for over 100 years, New Church Life is valued by many readers as a resource for study of the doctrinal thought of the church and as a repository of information on the history of the church organization.
Current Issue
November/December 2025 (PDF)
Inside this issue:
- Editorials: The Gifts of Christmas • Was He Unwelcome, Or Were They Simply Poor?
- Letters to the Editors
- A Vision for the General Church: Send me – Seven Years of Willingness me – The Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss Jr.
- Isaiah’s Prophecy of Salvation, A Christmas Sermon by the Rev. Michael D. Gladish
- Come to the Lord – A Christmas Sermon by the Rev. Malcolm G. Smith
- From the Bishop’s Office: Stillness – The Rt. Rev. Bradley D. Heinrichs
- Divine Light – Alan Pendleton
- Become Something – Charter Day Address: The Rev. Dr. Thane P. Glenn
- Spreading the Word and Growing the Church: New Christian Bible Project me – Steve David
- Listening to Eternity: A Book by Dr. Aram Yardumian (Reviewed by Bruce Henderson)
- Life Lines
- Church News
- Annual Report of the Secretary of the General Church
- Directory of the General Church Clergy
- Index for 2025
- Announcements
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