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Journalistic narratives about catalytic organizations and leaders that are innovative while remaining rooted in tradition

Asylum seekers in San Diego find a network of support

Jewish Family Service of San Diego has joined with other local organizations to help recent arrivals fleeing persecution.

By Kate Morrissey Journalist

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An experiment in housing and health: Tiny homes, burgeoning community and respite care

A Nashville church shares its property with a cluster of tiny homes where unhoused people can recover from illness and injury and move closer to stability.

By Fiona Soltes Journalist

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Movement chaplains offer specialized support for activists

Grounded in grassroots traditions, these chaplains are helping advocates for justice across the country access community resources and receive spiritual care.

By Leslie Quander Wooldridge Journalist

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Ibram X. Kendi and Nic Stone talk anti-racism with middle schoolers

Against a backdrop of book banning, attacks on school curricula and the highly publicized death of yet another Black man after an incident of police violence, bestselling authors Kendi and Stone assure a group of North Carolina eighth graders of their humanity and equality.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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A nonprofit ministers on “both sides of the gun”

Together Chicago reduces gun violence with a five-pronged strategy designed to reduce crime on the streets and improve social conditions on Chicago’s West Side.

By Claire Zulkey Journalist

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People in the pews: Who’s missing, who’s hiding, who’s comfortable on the couch?

Pastors mourn the faces they no longer see and figure out how to serve those they’ve yet to meet in person.

By Edie Gross Journalist

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Top 10 Faith & Leadership stories from 2022

In the strange overlap between pandemic and not-quite-post-pandemic worlds, Christian leaders have had to find ways to continuously adapt.

A collective of mostly Black women seeks to create a church that prioritizes their needs

The Root Cause Collective aims to provide a flexible space for those marginalized by mainstream churches.

By Cynthia R. Greenlee Journalist

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‘What do students want?’

An interfaith space at Virginia Commonwealth University uses asset-based community development to focus on the strengths and interests of the students who walk through its doors rather than telling them what they need.

By Edie Gross Journalist

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Broken faith

Division in the midterm elections reflects a further descent into conspiracy theories, racial and historical panics, and the invocation of spiritual warfare. How will people of faith respond to the white Christian nationalism that has brought us to this point?

By Anthea Butler Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania