Mary Nelson: Embracing God's vision for community
Leaders see possibilities amid despair. At-risk neighborhoods need pastors and community workers disciplined by creativity, resolve, hope and -- above all -- a God-given vision.
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Sam Barkat: We have all been made in the image of God
For Sam Barkat, Christians must become “people of the basin and towel,” since humility is crucial on the journey to diversity.
John Perkins: Empowering communities
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.
Paul Kawimbe: We need each other
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.
Jean Vanier: Of belonging and bonding
A world ‘gone mad through bad leadership’ could learn much from the international community known as L’Arche, says founder Jean Vanier.
Being the ministry
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
Welcoming immigrants
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.
Joseph Lowery: The pastor's role is to pursue justice
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.
Jean Vanier, gentleness and power
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.
‘But now I see’: New lenses from South Africa
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.