Social innovation

Religious institutions and spiritual innovators need each other

Building local spiritual ecosystems can provide stability in a shifting religious landscape and help communities flourish, a nonprofit network leader writes.

By Danielle Goldstone Founder and director, innoFaith

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Through partnership, prayer and perseverance, a small, suburban congregation responds to the community’s need for affordable housing

It took 16 years for Brigit’s Village, a 40-unit, intergenerational apartment complex in northern Colorado, to come to fruition.

By Daliah Singer Journalist

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Argrow “Kit” Evans-Ford: Families deserve generational, sustainable, long-term change

This Christian social enterprise has expanded from bath and body products to a café and food truck to support and train women who have experienced abuse.

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.

By Victoria Atkinson White Vice President for Grants and Programs, Church Benefits Association

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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.

By Valerie Schremp Hahn Journalist

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‘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.