Poor neighborhoods usually lack more than money. They lack leaders. John M. Perkins has spent five decades strengthening disenfranchised communities by raising up leaders from an often-overlooked location -- within.
Partnership is a new model. American and African Christians have unique gifts and resources to share with each other for more effective global missions, says AME Bishop Paul J.M. Kawimbe.
A world ‘gone mad through bad leadership’ could learn much from the international community known as L’Arche, says founder Jean Vanier.
Leaders of Broad Street Ministry made a church to serve its neighbors. The result is an unconventional Christian community that embraces everyone from homeless people to investment bankers.
Cathleen Colon-Emeric, a Sunday School teacher at Reconciliation UMC in Durham, N.C., sings with Claudia and Tamara Macareno. Lissa Gotwals
American churches are growing more ethnically diverse, a new study shows. More recent immigrants are members of predominantly white churches, but truly multicultural congregations are still rare.
The Rev. Joseph E. Lowery talks about balancing his work as a pastor and as a pioneering civil rights leader in an interview with Faith & Leadership.
The Canadian founder of a network of homes where the disabled and able-bodied live together exudes a soft power than belies his moral – and actual – authority.
Friendship with those who see the world from its underside, its suffering and oppression, is one of the best ways to develop a new and clearer lens into the gospel and the church’s mission.
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The ministry of reconciliation is fundamental to what makes Christian leadership Christian. The stories of Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela set a moral compass for our aspirations, says L. Gregory Jones.