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
The nonprofit DurhamCares seeks to make the Great Commandment a reality by building a process and infrastructure for meaningful giving to community organizations.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Five things church leaders can learn from Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee.
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.
America’s growing diversity is a key not only to church growth and evangelism but also to freeing the church from cultural captivity, says the North Park Theological Seminary professor and author.
Maggy Barankitse survived Burundi's brutal civil war and founded Maison Shalom, an institution dedicated to saving the country's orphans and raising them in God's love.
All of what it means to be a Christian is immersed in the biblical idea of reconciliation, says the professor of reconciliation studies at Bethel University.