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TagsElection resources for churches updated for 2024
With election season in full swing, here’s a collection of essays, book excerpts, interviews and other resources to help faith leaders and their communities navigate the weeks ahead.
Are young people still interested in religion and spirituality?
The answer is yes, but if churches want young folks to return, they must repair the harm done by the religious right, says the woman who gave the Young People’s Address to the UMC.
![Alejandra Salemi](/sites/default/files/2023-02/alejandra-salemi.jpg)
Seven campus ministry leaders reflect on young people and activism
With classes resuming at campuses across the country, some faith leaders who work closely with college students offer insights into what outside observers might be missing about Generation Z.
Six ways small churches can help us stay human during election season
Small churches may seem irrelevant during critical elections of international consequence. But these local congregations have much to teach us about staying human, says a Quaker pastor.
![Andy Stanton](/sites/default/files/2024-08/Andy-Stanton-henry-pic-e1667934625634.jpg)
Ruth Braunstein: More organizations are recognizing the threat of Christian nationalism
Organizations across political lines and religious identifications are working to combat Christian nationalism, says a sociologist.
Helping children of the incarcerated during Black August
Food insecurity among children who have a parent in jail or prison is an often-overlooked consequence of the U.S. prison-industrial complex. This month’s commemoration of the struggle for Black liberation is an opportunity to highlight that, writes a food justice activist.
![headshot of Yvette Blair Lavallais](/sites/default/files/2024-08/Yvette%20Blair%20Lavallais_Headshot.jpg)
S. Charmaine McKissick-Melton: A civil rights era activist celebrates Pauli Murray’s inclusion in the American Women Quarters Program
S. Charmaine McKissick-Melton and Pauli Murray have more in common than growing up in the same city of Durham, North Carolina. They both were the first Black woman in many rooms they walked into — and both had to fight to be there.
Churches will have work to do no matter who wins in November
A new resource invites faith communities to prepare for their response on ‘day one’ after the upcoming presidential election in ways that continue important ministries and the provision of care.
President Jimmy Carter’s simple clarity of faith
The former president’s message was that the work of faith is hard but the calling is simple, writes a former executive director of the New Baptist Covenant who worked with Carter.
![headshot of Hannah McMahan King](/sites/default/files/2024-06/1516898804702.jpg)
‘The Good News of Church Politics’
Church involvement in local politics can be a spiritual practice, but it’s important to keep the entire community in mind, an associate professor at Virginia Theological Seminary writes in this excerpt.
![headshot of Ross Kane](/sites/default/files/2024-06/kane_headshot.jpg)