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Lawndale Christian Community Church invests in its neighborhood with an “ecosystem” of programs, services and discipleship opportunities intended to help everyone who lives there thrive.
The season of longing encompasses both the joy and the pain of our very human desire for God, writes an author.
The reality and context of Jesus’ birth are far more inspiring than the sanitized version that Western culture embraces, a pastor writes.
Writing from her perspective as a former pastor and now frequent church visitor, an associate director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program suggests simple, concrete ways to welcome the visiting stranger.
In this excerpt from his upcoming book, a scholar reflects on wandering and welcome.
As more migrants leave their homes and look for refuge in the U.S., houses of worship have ample opportunity to live out their faith by welcoming the stranger, says a scholar of the Sanctuary Movement.
