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.
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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.
Link to author Holly Beretto
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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
A Sanctified Art creates worship materials that affirm diversity and expand imagination
A woman-led ministry of theologically trained creatives is offering faith communities around the world a new vision for telling ancient stories.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
Luis Cortés: Esperanza builds an ‘opportunity community’ for Latinos in Philadelphia
Institution building is key to developing a new generation of leaders, says the founder and CEO of one of the nation’s largest Hispanic-serving faith-based nonprofits.
From Chicago basement to international stage, the power of collaboration fueled a Latino-led nonprofit working with youth
In its early days, a startup nonprofit working to make the Bible more accessible to young people in urban areas found a crucial community partner. The result of their collaboration is a lesson for us all, writes a director of programs and grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Elizabeth Tamez Méndez
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Elizabeth Tamez Méndez
Director of Programs and Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Why I knit in church
Engaging with natural materials and making things with our own hands can help us be more fully incarnate, writes a pastor and knitter.
Link to author Christine Hribar
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Christine Hribar
Associate pastor, Old North Church, Marblehead, Massachusetts
Brian Ide: Unselfish love could bridge what divides us
In a new documentary, conversations about love that extends beyond sentimentality point the way toward connection.
