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Allison Backous Troy: How can we respond to campus shootings?
What is offered in the Gospels, and in the life of the church, is an invitation for our hearts to be healed -- an invitation that each of us can to extend to others, says a graduate of Seattle Pacific University.
Randal Jelks: Writing Benjamin Mays back into the history
Regarded as a spiritual and intellectual father to Martin Luther King Jr., the late Benjamin Mays is well worth knowing in his own right, a major figure who helped launch the civil rights movement, says a Mays biographer.
Nita Farahany: Neuroscience, the law and human responsibility
Advances in neuroscience are changing the way we think about crime, punishment and human agency, says a Duke professor who works at the intersection of law, philosophy and science.
Christopher L. Heuertz: Clémentine’s story
Two decades after she was pulled from a mass grave, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide reminds us not to hold Rwanda in the memory of its past but to honor those who embody the hope of their nation’s present and future.
Members of Southlake Church paint the Roosevelt High School gym. Photos courtesy of CityServe
Finding common ground in Portland
In a divisive time of culture wars and hot-button social issues, CityServe Portland focuses on what people have in common, bringing them together to love and serve their city.
David Dodson: The plumb line and the right path
The theologically trained president of MDC, a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating barriers to opportunity, describes his work as a “secular expression of faith.”
Donald L. McCoy and Chris Mangum became friends and founded Jobs for Life. Photos courtesy of Jobs for Life
Friendship at the heart of a mission
The friendship between three men -- two African-American pastors and a white businessman -- formed the core of Jobs for Life, a Christian nonprofit that has helped more than 22,000 men and women find employment.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar: Coming together to create
The founder of Urban Bush Women talks about the values that underlie the dance company: community, collaboration and multi-disciplinarity.
Ross Kane: In South Sudan, we do not lose heart
An Episcopal priest who worked as a volunteer in Sudan says that recent fighting, while tragic, does not cause him to lose hope in the church’s peace ministry there.