‘Looking Up: A Birder’s Guide to Hope Through Grief’
Peace comes to us in different clothing than we may expect, writes author Courtney Ellis in this excerpt from her meditation on birding as a practice of hope.
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Peace comes to us in different clothing than we may expect, writes author Courtney Ellis in this excerpt from her meditation on birding as a practice of hope.
In this excerpt from her new book addressing clergy and lay leader burnout, a Philadelphia priest raises a “scandalous question” about choosing whether to say yes or no.
Church involvement in local politics can be a spiritual practice, but it’s important to keep the entire community in mind, an associate professor at Virginia Theological Seminary writes in this excerpt.
The Rev. Ashley Goff reflects on her congregation’s long — and sometimes contentious — process of building 173 apartments for low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities in this excerpt from “Gone for Good?”
In her newest book, Cole Arthur Riley offers reflections and spiritual exercises while curating the wisdom of Black leaders who have gone before.
In a blend of memoir, reporting and political writing, journalist Tim Alberta explores in this excerpt what has happened to the modern evangelical world through the lens of his father’s church and his own faith.
In her upcoming book, theologian and author Kate Bowler offers meditations and reflections for a range of days – good, bad and the many in the middle.
The editor of a newly released collection of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray’s works writes about the religious importance of America’s “problem child” in an adapted excerpt from the book’s introduction.
In this excerpt from her new memoir, the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler writes about being “unemployed and disgraced” after leaving the Riverside Church in the City of New York — then finding joy in her new project, a fund to help closing churches invest their remaining assets.