God meets us in the things we love. That includes serving as a drum major
A campus chaplain reflects on his own college days and how striving toward a goal revealed God’s larger plan for him.
Arts
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‘Threads of Community’: Quilting and the Black church
Members of a sewing ministry and an artist share the way in which quilting honors tradition while also serving as a form of self-expression.
Justice Theater Project encourages community conversation and engagement through its performances
For more than two decades, a secular theater company has partnered with Raleigh, North Carolina, churches to offer programing with distinctly justice-focused themes.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
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Yonat Shimron
Journalist
Julian Davis Reid: Black music is a form of God’s grace
A jazz musician and theologian reflects on the lessons that Black music can offer the church and the world.
12 book recommendations from our staff
Faith & Leadership staff asked friends and colleagues to recommend books they read in the past year. Here is a list of highlights.
Jazz doesn’t just teach leaders the importance of improvisation. It also teaches the necessity of imitation
Imitation lays the foundation for improvisation, a lesson for leadership as well as for music.
Link to author L. Roger Owens
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L. Roger Owens
Hugh Thomson Kerr Professor of Pastoral Theology, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Kevin Dean: The theater is an “empathy gym” that can help people connect in divisive times
In Houston, a Christian theater company has been premiering original content and performing internationally known plays for almost 60 years. It continues to adapt, serving an increasingly diverse audience.
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Holly Beretto
Writer
Ashon Crawley: Performance art can express the deep despair and deep joy of the church experience
An artist and scholar combines Black Pentecostal and creative practices to make multimedia works of art.
Artistic creativity fuels a Houston church’s mission
A Texas congregation has formed itself and transformed a worn-down warehouse with art at the core of theology and community.
Link to author Lindsay Peyton
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Lindsay Peyton
Journalist
When songs become sermons — a different way of preaching
No longer able to sustain a choral program and facing clergy overload, members of a Maryland congregation now tell the old, old story by leaning into music, their pastor writes.
Link to author McKenna Wallen
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McKenna Wallen
Pastor, Maryland Presbyterian Church
Making something with your hands can be a kind of Sabbath
Creating a tangible handmade item like a knitted sweater, a carved spoon or a hand-dyed apron provides comfort and healing, writes a minister and handwork educator.
Link to author Christine Hribar
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Christine Hribar
Associate pastor, Old North Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts
