Religious institutions and spiritual innovators need each other
Building local spiritual ecosystems can provide stability in a shifting religious landscape and help communities flourish, a nonprofit network leader writes.
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Stations of Reparations honor Black church history
The Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey pauses annually during Lent to reflect on the effect of systemic racism on its Black parishes. Along with acknowledging its own history, the diocese has worked for reparations at the state level with religious and secular organizations.
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Annette John-Hall
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Justice Theater Project encourages community conversation and engagement through its performances
For more than two decades, a secular theater company has partnered with Raleigh, North Carolina, churches to offer programing with distinctly justice-focused themes.
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Yonat Shimron
Journalist
How to recognize when a pastor and a congregation are misaligned
When the fit isn’t right, sometimes leaving is the next faithful step, writes a pastor. He offers four tips for finding alignment between pastor and congregation.
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Russell Lackey
Pastor, Mission Lutheran Church
A nonprofit focused on young people’s success has built a championship soccer program
Partnering with local churches, the reVision Football Club in Houston has made high-quality soccer training available to players from marginalized neighborhoods. More than 40 have gone on to compete in college.
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Lindsay Peyton
Journalist
The value of levity in the local church
Play helps us understand God and open new paths for ministry, says a pastor
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Andy Stanton-Henry
Co-director, Quaker Leadership Center at Earlham School of Religion
Through partnership, prayer and perseverance, a small, suburban congregation responds to the community’s need for affordable housing
It took 16 years for Brigit’s Village, a 40-unit, intergenerational apartment complex in northern Colorado, to come to fruition.
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Daliah Singer
Journalist
Karl Stutzman and Ruth Szpunar: How do religious leaders evaluate information?
A new study examines how clergy find and evaluate the information they need and how they help congregants navigate today’s information landscape.
Grief comes in many forms
We have the right to grieve the loss of anything connected to our hearts. Church can be a place where those losses are recognized, writes a minister and therapist.
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Peggy Haymes
Minister, therapist and writer
Historic church teaches about the past and engages the present
The oldest Black congregation in Chicago restores its historic building while reaching out as history is made in the city today.
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Celeste Kennel-Shank
Journalist
‘Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders’
A missiologist, a religion journalist and a church researcher write about one of the largest American churches in the 1960s in an excerpt from a recent book.
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