Religious AI: Seven principles to consider when using GPTs
After studying religious GPTs, a scholar of technology and faith offers guidelines to help pastors who use these tools.
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Embracing a fruitless season
A writer adapts the church traditions of his childhood in Montserrat, where fruit and flowers decorate the sanctuaries, to his life in the United States
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Andrew J. Skerritt
Writer
On Christmas Eve, Christ House marks four decades of providing healthcare for unhoused men
A Washington, D.C., nonprofit celebrates the 40th anniversary of its ministry of medical support, community building and leadership in the field.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
More congregants joined churches from 2020 to 2025 than in previous years
The COVID pandemic may have caused a bump in church attendance, researchers say, but new attendees have varied reasons for joining churches.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
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Yonat Shimron
Journalist
What’s the role of ‘First Churches’ in natural disasters?
After large-scale crises, big-steeple churches anchor communities using their unique status, relationships and networks to help communities respond and rebuild.
Kenneth H. Carter Jr.
Audrey Warren
From metrics to meaning: Leading with wisdom in the age of data
It’s important to recognize that while metrics tell part of a congregation’s story, they cannot measure the stirrings of conviction or the whispers of the Spirit, writes a church leadership consultant.
Link to author Chris Aho
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Chris Aho
Church leadership consultant
Joining our voices with 17 centuries of saints through the Nicene Creed
Reciting the Nicene Creed each week provides connection with those around us and those who have gone before, writes the director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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Emily Lund
Director of Communications, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Cultivating networks of impact
In times of celebration and in times of crisis, networks help provide connection, resilience and stability.
Link to author Angie Kay Hong
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Angie Kay Hong
Director of Educational Programs, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Ryan Burge and Tony Jones: Understanding people’s engagement with religion is far more nuanced than current conversations would indicate
Two of the nation’s leading experts on people who have disengaged from organized religion say that trend is both more complex and simpler than some church leaders realize.
One year after Hurricane Helene, two churches share space and a renewed sense of mission
Two congregations, one United Methodist and the other Episcopal, have worked together since the devastating storm flooded one church and turned the other into a community relief center.
Link to author Stephanie Hunt
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Stephanie Hunt
Journalist
An affordable housing project uses its faith-based history to grow into the future
Now a secular nonprofit, Harborlight Homes has expanded to address a housing shortage while holding onto its church roots.
Link to author G. Jeffrey MacDonald
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G. Jeffrey MacDonald
Journalist and UCC minister
