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In the face of pandemic food insecurity, one church takes on the ministry of giving away groceries
As members of their community faced hunger this past year, Virginia’s Mount Olive Baptist Church focused on finding and distributing quality food for free.
Link to author Leslie Quander Wooldridge
By Leslie Quander Wooldridge
Journalist
Tired of constantly adapting to worship in a pandemic? You’re not alone
Many churches thought that vaccines would pave the way back to normal worship, but new COVID-19 realities are forcing us to keep pivoting.
Link to author Angie Hong
By Angie Hong
Worship leader, writer and speaker
Consider the introverts
Leadership comes at all volumes. The church must listen for quieter voices, too.
Link to author Emily Lund
By Emily Lund
Communications Specialist
When the pandemic closed schools, an existing network of congregations and others jumped in to offer meals — and more
Churches, government agencies and nonprofits that already served struggling families responded to the pandemic by ramping up their shared mission beyond providing children with summer meals.
Link to author Dan Holly
By Dan Holly
Journalist
"Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue"
Black barbecue has always been a remarkably religious experience, says a James Beard award-winning food writer in this excerpt from his new book.
Link to author Adrian Miller
By Adrian Miller
Executive director, Colorado Council of Churches
Interested in helping Afghan refugees? Read these do’s and don’ts
Many congregations are eager to assist in resettlement efforts. Experts offer guidance on how to do it well by respecting new arrivals and remembering: volunteering is not about you.
Link to author Ray Marcano
By Ray Marcano
Journalist
Kate Bowler: Sharing anti-Instagram theology — on Instagram
In her new book and on other platforms, divinity professor Kate Bowler explores what it means to live well even if our lives are never “finished.”
How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”
Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.
Link to author Alexis Lillie
By Alexis Lillie
Minister, The Church of the Village
Falling in love again — with a congregation
Now could be the time to rediscover why we chose a faith community in the first place and to consider what’s next, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Kelly Ryan
By Kelly Ryan
Director, Thriving Congregations Coordination Program
"How to Have an Enemy: Righteous Anger and the Work of Peace"
In this excerpt from her new book, author Melissa Florer-Bixler writes about the importance of embracing vengeance, anger and having enemies as a Christian practice.
Link to author Melissa Florer-Bixler
By Melissa Florer-Bixler
Pastor, Raleigh Mennonite Church
