Letting grace guide how we welcome newcomers
A pastor notices how small gestures can help visitors breathe — and feel the grace of God — from the moment they step through the door.
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A pastor notices how small gestures can help visitors breathe — and feel the grace of God — from the moment they step through the door.
Ministry practitioners of Sacred Listening share examples of how young people respond to being heard without judgment when they share their beliefs.
We are called to remain true to the common good despite opposition and adversity. That feels particularly hard now, but the Bible offers reassurance.
Leadership Education at Duke Divinity is now the Forum for Congregational Life. The organization’s executive director explains that there are important reasons for the name change, including a revised focus.
The pastoral housing crisis reveals the cost of a sacrifice that the church has stopped naming, writes the founder of a Christian housing nonprofit. Her essay is a call to old faithfulness.
Bill Minor’s reporting was important to the movement for civil rights in Mississippi and the nation. His vocation was informed and sustained by his faith, a documentarian writes.
Building local spiritual ecosystems can provide stability in a shifting religious landscape and help communities flourish, a nonprofit network leader writes.
A writer reflects on the past and the future as he plants flowers and vegetables in his garden.
It is difficult to hold onto hope when horrors abound in the world. And yet.
To prayerfully metabolize their experience and discern God’s presence in their lives, Christian leaders can draw on the embodied example of Psalm 31, writes a spiritual director.