Health & Well-being

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.

By Leslie Quander Wooldridge Journalist

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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.”

Healing our image of God

Our notions of God are inevitably colored by our wounds and constrained by the limits of what we imagine to be possible. It’s so easy to mistake the flood of self-rejecting voices for God’s voice.

By Jean Neely Scholar and writer

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Growing beyond rage into hope and collective healing

The tragedies of the world provoke understandable rage. But focusing on existential gratitude and connection creates space for transformation, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.

By Alaina Kleinbeck Director, Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program

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Francis Collins: Science is ‘a glimpse of God’s mind’

As a community anchored on the principle of truth, the church can play a leading role in guiding us out of the pandemic, says the director of the National Institutes of Health.

The parable of the shopping carts

After 18 months of trying to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19, our frustration with those who reject all measures is real, writes an editor of Faith & Leadership.

By Aleta Payne Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership

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Women clergy and the pandemic: Weary, but not giving up

In these profiles, four clergywomen share their pandemic stories. Like many American women, they’ve struggled to balance work, home and community in lives upended by the coronavirus.

By Yonat Shimron Journalist

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What Paul teaches us about coping with trauma

A clinical psychologist, poet and professor reads the letters of Paul through a psychological lens and identifies keys to his resilience and positive religious coping — and how those strategies might help Christians today.

By Luis Cruz-Villalobos Author and clinical psychologist

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Rediscovering rest in all its forms

We live in a culture of exhaustion and sometimes don’t even know what type of rest we need.

By Kerry McLeish Spiritual director

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LGBTQ+ folks teach us a lot about kinship

Focusing conversations on “welcome” or “inclusion” is not enough; we need to learn from LGBTQ+ people and expand our understanding of community, a queer pastor says.