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Restoring dignity
A nonprofit in New York City founded by a young social worker leverages a network of resources to provide aftercare and safe housing for women who are victims of sex trafficking.
Reconciliation
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Christine D. Pohl: Living into the practice of truthfulness
In this excerpt from “Living into Community: Cultivating Practices That Sustain Us,” the theologian and ethicist explores what it means to live truthfully, one of the four practices at the heart of thriving Christian communities.
Helen Prejean: Like water going under and around rock
For almost 30 years, Sister Helen Prejean, author of “Dead Man Walking,” has been using witness and storytelling to bring people close to the reality of the death penalty.
A refugee from Burma resettled by Church World Service in Durham, N.C., repairs a bicycle at a bike co-op. Church World Service is a partner of the nonprofit DurhamCares. Joanna Schiestl
Love your neighbor
The nonprofit DurhamCares seeks to make the Great Commandment a reality by building a process and infrastructure for meaningful giving to community organizations.
Matthew Floding: Lessons from Friendship House
Western Theological Seminary has learned much from its new student apartments -- the gifts of people with disabilities, new insights about community, and the nature of providence and grace.
Charlene Brown: Impatiently waiting
The search for a church committed to racial reconciliation didn’t go quickly. But the waiting for it, like the waiting of Advent, was a time to learn to love God and neighbor and find miracles in small and surprising places.
David Ostendorf: The crescent at the crossroads
As settlement of the African Muslim diaspora in the United States continues, Christian leaders should step boldly into this change to create community with Muslim newcomers.
Jeremy Troxler: The tie that binds
A divided world does not need a church free of conflict and sin but a church that models how conflict and sin can be transformed into peace.
Lisa Nichols Hickman: Keep walking
Five things church leaders can learn from Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.
L. Gregory Jones: Reconciling leadership from Nickel Mines
Five years after five children were killed and more wounded in a schoolhouse shooting, an Amish community shows how the tradition of forgiveness can enable a new future.