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Image link to article: At Bethlehem Farm, living creatively and building community

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 | Zack Harold

At Bethlehem Farm, living creatively and building community

A West Virginia Catholic community based on a working farm shares a commitment to sustainability and support for their neighbors with rotating teams of volunteers.

Monday, December 11, 2023

News & Ideas

Daily headlines about the church and the world

Israel encouraged funding Hamas
Penn president resigns
Muslim leaders in swing states
Police investigate LA priest
Teaching proper Muslim burial
Chaucer through the years

Image link to article: Luke A. Powery: A preacher must humanize suffering

Luke A. Powery: A preacher must humanize suffering

Image link to article: How to identify and counter dangerous speech

How to identify and counter dangerous speech

By Susan Benesch Founder and executive director, Dangerous Speech Project

Image link to article: Christmas is a season for the unexpected

Christmas is a season for the unexpected

By Victoria Atkinson White Director of Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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The well of joy

By Jessica Young Brown Licensed clinical psychologist

Image link to article: The church needs innovation instigators

The church needs innovation instigators

By Gabby Cudjoe-Wilkes Pastor, author and educator

Image link to article: ‘With God, later is not late’

‘With God, later is not late’

By Melba Newsome Journalist

Allowing Advent to find us honestly

We can reframe the Advent season in order to reclaim it, writes an author and academic.

By Shannon W. Dycus Pastor and educator

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Advent’s surprise for us

What might happen if we greeted the season with wonder and amazement?

By Emily Lund Director of Communications, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Rhonda Thomas: Accurately teaching history is a moral issue

Legislation limiting what can be taught in public schools fueled a Florida nonprofit’s decision to develop a Black history toolkit for faith communities.

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Larger churches have had an easier, more successful transition to using technology after the pandemic

New research reveals uncertainty about technology use among smaller churches, while for larger churches it has become “second nature.”

By Shari Finnell Journalist

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Do the people on death row deserve joy?

A pastor discovers that preaching to people scheduled to die is an experience of joy — for him and for them.

By Dewey Williams Pastor, Mt. Bright Missionary Baptist Church

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Monday, December 11, 2023

News & Ideas

Daily headlines about the church and the world

Israel encouraged funding Hamas
Penn president resigns
Muslim leaders in swing states
Police investigate LA priest
Teaching proper Muslim burial
Chaucer through the years

Fresco of shepherds in the field learning of the birth of Jesus

From the archives

Advent

Our grief doesn’t stop during Advent
Kalina Carlson
A pastor’s message for Advent in sanctuary
Pilar Timpane
Enuma Okoro: The wait might be the thing we're waiting for
Enuma Okoro
Advent 2020 -- leaning into divine mystery
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals

A gold carving of the holy family at the nativity

From the archives

Christmas

Can’t relate to Christmas Mary? There’s good news for you too
Erin S. Lane
What was Joseph to do?
Mycal X. Brickhouse
Christmas Festival brings 'good news of great joy' to a diverse and changing world
Jeff Strickler
Thea L. Racelis: Puerto Rican Christmas means asopao and resistance
Thea L. Racelis