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Tuesday, June 14, 2022 | Leslie Quander Wooldridge

La Cocina VA sets a table for training and workforce development

A nonprofit’s partnership with two Virginia churches offers a model for collaboration between faith-based and community-based organizations.

Friday, July 1, 2022

News & Ideas

Daily headlines about the church and the world

Churches and July 4
Israel remarks draw criticism
Christian professor comes out
Churches must adapt
Secret sounds of Notre Dame
Doing good feels good

Juneteenth is both a cause for celebration and a call to action

By Michael W. Waters Lead pastor of Abundant Life AME Church

Sanyin Siang: Leadership is about influence and persuasion

How we create space for unlikely and transformational encounters

By Maria Teresa Gastón Managing director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

For Black teachers and Black churches: A wonder

By Candace Simpson Minister and religious educator

Changing the abortion conversation from justification to justice

By Rebecca Todd Peters Professor and program director, Elon University

Beyond stigma and shame to recovery and hope in addressing substance-use disorder

By Carla Hinton Journalist

Resources for Christian leaders during the coronavirus pandemic

We update this list of information from government and media sources regularly to offer guidance to pastors and other Christian leaders struggling to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Responding to gun violence

From the archives of Faith & Leadership and others, we offer resources to help Christian leaders respond to recent mass shootings, including guidance on how to talk to children.

Offering an ongoing response to mental health needs

As Mental Health Awareness Month draws to a close, we must continue to be responsive to a national crisis worsened by COVID-19.

By Jessica Young Brown Licensed clinical psychologist

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To expand your imagination, get curious

Learning to be inquisitive and openhearted can make way for all sorts of possibilities, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.

By Kelly Ryan Director, Thriving Congregations Coordination Program

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‘What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death’

Tallu Schuyler Quinn reckons with a devastating cancer diagnosis in her posthumously published book.

By Tallu Schuyler Quinn Author

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A white, progressive pastor reflects on the anti-racism work ahead

In the 1960s and ’70s, the work of justice for white people looked like writing letters, joining marches and signing petitions. But the work ahead is focused on economic justice as well as building relationships, writes a Baptist pastor emeritus.