Baking bread, breaking bread, and the lessons for pastors in both
Successful bread dough requires a delicate balance between tension and rest, and so do faith communities, explains a baker and writer.
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Successful bread dough requires a delicate balance between tension and rest, and so do faith communities, explains a baker and writer.
Hopeful people don’t blindly assume that everything is going to be all right; they work for a better future, writes the director of research at Duke’s Office of Climate and Sustainability.
Exploitation and neglect by the scientific and medical communities have left some Black Americans hesitant to participate in research studies. Faith leaders are helping form relationships and connections they hope will address that.
In her work as a climate action fellow, a former science professor equips clergy and laypeople to advocate for environmental justice.
Rather than focusing on fixing symptoms, the professor and psychiatrist describes in a new book how to reframe mental health care as learning to live more wisely and fully in the world.
Spiritual practices may not always provide the answers we seek, but they can encourage us to keep asking questions.
Creating a tangible handmade item like a knitted sweater, a carved spoon or a hand-dyed apron provides comfort and healing, writes a minister and handwork educator.
Peace comes to us in different clothing than we may expect, writes author Courtney Ellis in this excerpt from her meditation on birding as a practice of hope.
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.
When runners train for a race, they are told to spend most of their time preparing at a slower pace to help them speed up when needed. The strategy offers important lessons for how we approach our work and life, writes the director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
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.