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What Zoom has taught us about in-person connection and stewardship of relationships
The expansion of virtual meeting options during the pandemic allowed us to continue our work and personal interactions more safely. Now, we need to rediscover the value of in-person gathering versus online efficiency, writes a director of grants for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Victoria Atkinson White
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Victoria Atkinson White
Director of Grants, Leadership Education at Duke Divinity
Listening to people and investing in them as an act of radical service
Married pastors have transformed a vacant strip mall into a community development hub and base for needed services in a St. Louis suburb.
Link to author Valerie Schremp Hahn
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Valerie Schremp Hahn
Journalist
‘Beautiful and Terrible Things’
In this excerpt from her new memoir, the Rev. Dr. Amy Butler writes about being “unemployed and disgraced” after leaving the Riverside Church in the City of New York — then finding joy in her new project, a fund to help closing churches invest their remaining assets.
Link to author Amy Butler
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Amy Butler
Founder, Invested Faith
Majora Carter: Don’t leave! We can make low-status neighborhoods better
A real estate developer in the South Bronx works to build attractive spaces and create jobs in her home community and show people they can have beautiful, successful lives in their own neighborhoods.
Kimberly R. Daniel: Christian innovation must change the status quo to help the marginalized
Innovation isn’t Christian if it doesn’t focus on God’s priorities, says the co-author of a book from the Forum for Theological Exploration.
Brandon Dennison: ‘People, planet, profit, in that order’
A social enterprise in Huntington, West Virginia, focuses on the dignity of its workers while seeding the green economy and helping strengthen Appalachia.
Link to author Zack Harold
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Zack Harold
Journalist
Yes in God’s Back Yard wants to build homes for those most in need of them
A faith-based initiative anchored in San Diego would use property owned by religious institutions to help address an affordable-housing crisis.
Link to author Kate Morrissey
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Kate Morrissey
Journalist
The Gallatin hotel as an economic engine for ministry
A real estate developer who has transformed Nashville churches into boutique hotels has created the Rooms for Rooms program, which donates a portion of hotel profits to organizations working with people experiencing homelessness.
Link to author Fiona Soltes
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Fiona Soltes
Journalist
A new relationship with time
Reconsidering workplace norms is one way to help dismantle racism and seed transformation in a post-pandemic world, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
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Alaina Kleinbeck
Associate Executive Director, Coordination Programs
Wendy Puffer: Design thinking can reveal problems and re-imagine solutions
Using the principles of design thinking can push Christian leaders to listen more closely to their surrounding communities and be more creative in addressing their needs, says the co-founder of Marion Design Co.
