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Sacrificial giving

By Matthew Dewald Journalist

A church in a depressed, Rust Belt town has raised more than $4 million to help people in Sudan. This remarkable project began when the Rev. Mike Slaughter challenged his congregants to turn away from consumer culture and spend their money to help people in need.

Evaluating Sunday's sermon

By Nathan Kirkpatrick Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC

It’s difficult to get honest feedback. But it’s important to seek out constructive criticism about preaching and other aspects of leadership in order to improve, writes Nathan E. Kirkpatrick.

On mission

For 25 years, Lawndale Christian Health Center has expanded services in a needy community while maintaining its church-based identity.

By Rob Moll Editor and author

We are in this together

Laura Truax’s faith journey has included a punishing fundamentalism, a mind-opening exposure to Zen Buddhism and a Jesuit education. Now she is the senior pastor of an evangelical congregation with a mission to embrace the world.

By Ritta M. Basu

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Growing your own leaders

Empowering and hiring local residents is important to Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection, a faith-based network of urban service-learning programs.

By Maria Mallory White Journalist

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Reconciliation on campus

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is a rare model of a large institution that has woven racial reconciliation into its DNA, despite the fact that trying to achieve this goal can be messy and discouraging.

By Jason Byassee Senior minister, Timothy Eaton Memorial Church, Toronto

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Plugged in . . . to the future

By Ned Barnett Journalist

In the heart of tobacco country, a United Methodist church is helping create a new economic future by providing adult computer training. Some members weren’t sure, but most agreed: It’s exactly what the church should be doing.

The dot connectors

In Cincinnati, Strive is a new kind of ‘catalytic’ nonprofit, bringing others together to ensure academic success for children.

By Jana Riess Writer and blogger

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After the deluge

Rebuilding a community, block by block. An innovative partnership created by two United Methodist pastors revitalizes flood-ravaged neighborhoods in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

By Madelaine Jerousek-Smith Journalist

The coffeehouse church

By Lynn Gosnell Journalist

Leaders of a 100-year-old United Methodist Church in San Antonio discerned a call to create a new, missional community. But instead of planting a church, they planted a coffeehouse.