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A new lens can ease the strain of ministry
A bivocational pastor draws from her career as a therapist to suggest that viewing ministry through the lens of unconditional positive regard can help clergy focus on what is thriving.
Link to author Meagan Manas
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Meagan Manas
Pastor and mental health therapist
Baking bread, breaking bread, and the lessons for pastors in both
Successful bread dough requires a delicate balance between tension and rest, and so do faith communities, explains a baker and writer.
Link to author Kendall Vanderslice
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Kendall Vanderslice
Author
Forget optimism — choose hope
Hopeful people don’t blindly assume that everything is going to be all right; they work for a better future, writes the director of research at Duke’s Office of Climate and Sustainability.
Link to author Norman Wirzba
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Norman Wirzba
Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor, Duke Divinity School
Black church leaders help build trust as a pathway to better health
Exploitation and neglect by the scientific and medical communities have left some Black Americans hesitant to participate in research studies. Faith leaders are helping form relationships and connections they hope will address that.
Link to author Melba Newsome
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Melba Newsome
Journalist
Becca Edwards: Science is a tool that helps us better live out our faith
In her work as a climate action fellow, a former science professor equips clergy and laypeople to advocate for environmental justice.
Warren Kinghorn: Mental health includes learning to live wisely
Rather than focusing on fixing symptoms, the professor and psychiatrist describes in a new book how to reframe mental health care as learning to live more wisely and fully in the world.
Sweeping the labyrinth and inviting others into our lonely questions
Spiritual practices may not always provide the answers we seek, but they can encourage us to keep asking questions.
Link to author Laura M. Fabrycky
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Laura M. Fabrycky
Author and essayist
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
‘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.
Link to author Courtney Ellis
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Courtney Ellis
Associate pastor, Presbyterian Church of the Master
Are young people still interested in religion and spirituality?
The answer is yes, but if churches want young folks to return, they must repair the harm done by the religious right, says the woman who gave the Young People’s Address to the UMC.
Link to author Alejandra Salemi
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Alejandra Salemi
Doctoral student, population health sciences
