‘Pedagogy of the Ancestors: Practices for Mentoring and Teaching Future Generations’
Being a good ancestor means living a life that leaves a better world with less suffering and harm, an educator says in a new book.
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God meets us in the things we love. That includes serving as a drum major
A campus chaplain reflects on his own college days and how striving toward a goal revealed God’s larger plan for him.
Link to author Jonathan R. Whitfield
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Jonathan R. Whitfield
Chaplain, Berea College
Beyond church walls, common threads catalyze communities
Faith & Leadership checks in with three previously featured projects about their continued learning and growth over recent years.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
How can the Black church combat the erasure of Black history?
The current threats to Black historical memory should serve as a call for Christian leaders to preserve, celebrate and commemorate Black history, says a pastor of a historic church.
Link to author Kenneth Young
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Kenneth Young
Pastor and director of external relationships, Massachusetts Council of Churches
The Christian Latina Leadership Institute empowers women to lead
A two-year certificate program helps Latinas to fulfill their callings as ministers and in other fields by offering practical and spiritual education.
Link to author Bekah McNeel
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Bekah McNeel
Journalist and author
Geoffrey Smith: What can ancient Egyptian papyri teach us about the Christian faith?
A collection of papyri, including the earliest known Gospel fragment, is coming to North America for the first time, along with letters, magic spells and other remnants of Christian life in antiquity.
Seminary helped me understand sacred activism; now I teach it to my high school students
We can trust young people to handle complexity and think critically, especially when they have the necessary tools, language and space to reflect.
Link to author Khristi Lauren Adams
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Khristi Lauren Adams
Author
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.
The Theological Education Between the Times project continues to seed fruitful, faithful dialogue
More than a decade after it began, a project on theological education has generated a dozen books and far more conversations.
Corwin Malcolm Davis
Ted A. Smith
With study, care and patience, a church makes a long-term commitment to help one family at a time
Partnered with other faith communities in their city, a small Virginia congregation has spent decades investing in families for the long haul.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
Why I turned my board room into a dojo
When a pastor created a space for embodied faith and tae kwon do in a campus church building, stressed-out students embraced the movement practices.
Link to author Erica Liu
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Erica Liu
Executive director and pastor, Pres House campus ministry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
