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Religious AI: Seven principles to consider when using GPTs

After studying religious GPTs, a scholar of technology and faith offers guidelines to help pastors who use these tools.

By Heidi A. Campbell Professor, Texas A&M University

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Embracing a fruitless season

A writer adapts the church traditions of his childhood in Montserrat, where fruit and flowers decorate the sanctuaries, to his life in the United States

By Andrew J. Skerritt Writer

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A guided meditation for Epiphany: Created for love, labor and leisure

In a culture that expects relentless productivity, we need to shift perspectives to value rest, writes a director of programs and grants at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Mycal X. Brickhouse Director of programs and grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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A weary world needs hopeful stories

The ability of churches to share joyful stories that inspire action is especially important in hard times, writes an associate director for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity’s Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.

By Sarah E. Forsyth Associate Director, Thriving Congregations Coordination Program

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Joy and play are defiant ‘acts of dignity’

Celebration and imagination fuel resilient, faithful leadership, writes a director of programs and grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Elizabeth Tamez Méndez Director of Programs and Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity

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Recovering a Spirit-led experience in the Wesleyan tradition

A Methodist pastor reflects on the legacy of John Wesley and on listening for the Spirit when it speaks.

By Justin Coleman Senior pastor, University United Methodist Church

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Compassion as a sacred source for spiritual leadership

We must be present and undistracted in order to practice compassion. The result can be transformative.

By Aizaiah Yong Executive Director, Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research

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Listening with our bodies for God’s voice

In a culture that often views decisions made with the head as most reliable, what insights might our bodies provide in the process of discerning God’s will?

By Katie Bracy Communications Specialist

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Finding abundance in our connection with God and one another

It is especially important in difficult times to understand what an authentically abundant life is and to engage in spiritual practices to sustain it, writes a psychologist who focuses on faith and mental health.

By Jessica Young Brown Licensed clinical psychologist

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Joining our voices with 17 centuries of saints through the Nicene Creed

Reciting the Nicene Creed each week provides connection with those around us and those who have gone before, writes the director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.