How our pandemic experience might help the church engage “nones” and “dones”
Let’s leverage a year of forced innovation to be church in a way that attracts people who really are done with religion, writes a minister at a Greenwich Village church.
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Let's re-envision "normal"
Along with the hard lessons of the pandemic, churches have learned things that can make them healthier for clergy and congregants, a pastor writes.
Link to author Alex Shea Will
By Alex Shea Will
Associate Pastor, South Church
Eat. Pray. Skate: A skateboarding ministry offers unconditional love to teens
Serious JuJu is a ministry that meets young people where they are -- in a skate park.
Link to author Katie Cantrell
By Katie Cantrell
Journalist
The Practicing Church in Shoreline, Washington, seeks to live out its faith in the neighborhood
Borrowing from the Roman Catholic tradition of the parish, the pastor of a Vineyard house church focuses on serving the geographical area in which the church is located.
Link to author Yonat Shimron
By Yonat Shimron
Journalist
A merged congregation bonds over a project to honor the freed and enslaved Africans buried in its cemetery
A historic, predominantly Black congregation in New Jersey seeks to learn the names and stories of more than 300 unidentified souls buried in unmarked graves.
Link to author Genine Babakian
By Genine Babakian
Journalist
It's time to talk about Advent in a pandemic
If congregations begin to consider what Advent and Christmas might look like online, they will have time to imagine and plan together, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Nathan Kirkpatrick
By Nathan Kirkpatrick
Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC
The pastoral challenge of a Brooklyn church and COVID-19
From one of the pandemic’s epicenters, a minister describes his congregation’s experience through death and new life over the last four months.
Link to author Gary V. Simpson
By Gary V. Simpson
Leading Pastor, Concord Baptist Church of Christ
How to think about what's next when the future is unclear
COVID-19 presents us with overwhelming daily challenges, but we must also begin to consider what's ahead, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Nathan Kirkpatrick
By Nathan Kirkpatrick
Principal, Saison Consulting, LLC
Ministry on death and dying teaches people how to plan for the end of life
Bethel AME Church in Boston helps members plan for the end of their lives with a three-part program that is practical and spiritual. The ministry is in keeping with the church’s focus on health and wellness.
By Phillip Martin
Journalist
A church's fresco project shows that everyone has sacred worth
A church dedicated to radical hospitality and welcome creates a fresco that permanently enshrines those values and the faces of those it serves.
Link to author Stephanie Hunt
By Stephanie Hunt
Journalist
Church's money management lessons lead to transformation in an impoverished neighborhood
Eastern Star Church is helping bring hope to the 46218 ZIP code in Indianapolis through housing initiatives, social services, a grocery store, financial coaching and more.
By Shari Finnell
Journalist
