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What can you do with a church building? Support local religion journalism

A congregation in Spokane, Washington, offered its building to a digital news startup, allowing it to grow into a million-dollar organization, writes the founder of the site.

By Tracy Simmons Executive director, SpokaneFAVS.com

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Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church works for the environment and for community well-being

For 40 years, a small, rural North Carolina church has played a crucial role in what is now known as the environmental justice movement.

By Dan Holly Journalist

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A blessing for those who minister

In a culture of effortless perfection, Kate Bowler and Jessica Richie are determined to tell the truth: life is beautiful and hard. In their new book, “The Lives We Actually Have: 100 Blessings for Imperfect Days,” they offer blessings for joys and struggles and plain, ordinary days. And because Christian leaders are human too, they share here a special blessing for those who minister.

Kate Bowler Jessica Richie

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Could spiritual practices help young adults struggling with violence?

This first generation to come of age in the spiritual-but-not-religious era also is the first generation to deal regularly with mass violence. Could soulful practices help young adults process grief and fear? asks an author.

By Dori Baker Author and consultant

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At Epiphany, new ways of being

We can look to the unlikely group gathered for Christ’s nativity as a model for friendship, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Alaina Kleinbeck Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs

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Can’t relate to Christmas Mary? There’s good news for you too

For women without biological children, the veneration of Mary can be alienating. But Mary’s freedom song in Luke’s Gospel offers another way to regard the mother of Jesus, writes an author.

By Erin S. Lane Writer

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Addressing a history of enslavement is key to reparations

A pastor and a sociologist write about the process that a congregation went through to understand and address the enslavers enshrined in their windows.

Lauren Jones Mayfield Gerardo Martí

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Antidotes to compassion fatigue

A group of researchers found that feeling God’s presence was key to pastors’ avoiding exhaustion in the pandemic.

Ed de St. Aubin Jessica Krukowski Matthew Evans

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What was Joseph to do?

Mary is understandably a focus of most Advent stories, but there are also lessons to learn from Joseph, writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Mycal X. Brickhouse Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Our grief doesn’t stop during Advent

The shepherds’ story within the greater nativity offers wisdom for those mourning a loss during Christmas, a pastor writes.

By Kalina Carlson Associate pastor and entrepreneur

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