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How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”

Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.

By Alexis Lillie Minister, The Church of the Village

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Is it even possible for pastors to practice rest and self-care?

Like many essential workers, pastors are pushed to work very hard for very little. It’s no surprise that so many of us are tired.

By Carrington Moore Pastor, Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church

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Which suckers are holding you back?

In life as in gardening, trimming away what hinders growth and healthy development can yield a better harvest, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

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

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Those who deny the history of white supremacy preserve its presence

Efforts to undermine critical race theory are really attempts to undercut the truth, writes a national leader with the United Church of Christ.

By Traci D. Blackmon Former associate general minister, United Church of Christ

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Green funerals are one way for Christian leaders to promote creation care

By promoting more environmentally friendly funeral practices, Christian leaders can better serve God, God’s people and the land.

By Sequola Collins Director of bereavement, Russell Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

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Falling in love again — with a congregation

Now could be the time to rediscover why we chose a faith community in the first place and to consider what’s next, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.

By Kelly Ryan Missioner for discipleship, Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina

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Technology, formation and the lure of easy answers

Instead of fearing or uncritically embracing every new technology, Christians ought to ask what our use of technology says about us, says the director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin University.

By David I. Smith Professor, Calvin University

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What Paul teaches us about coping with trauma

A clinical psychologist, poet and professor reads the letters of Paul through a psychological lens and identifies keys to his resilience and positive religious coping — and how those strategies might help Christians today.

By Luis Cruz-Villalobos Author and clinical psychologist

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How to rehabilitate in the midst of pandemics

To begin recovering from the past year, organizations need a plan that tends to integrity, mission and morale.

By David L. Odom Executive director, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Rediscovering rest in all its forms

We live in a culture of exhaustion and sometimes don’t even know what type of rest we need.

By Kerry McLeish Spiritual director

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