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A nonprofit focused on young people’s success has built a championship soccer program
Partnering with local churches, the reVision Football Club in Houston has made high-quality soccer training available to players from marginalized neighborhoods. More than 40 have gone on to compete in college.
Link to author Lindsay Peyton
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Lindsay Peyton
Journalist
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.
Link to author Daliah Singer
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Daliah Singer
Journalist
Lessons from Minneapolis for people of faith
A United Methodist pastor in Minneapolis emphasizes the importance of faith communities’ public ministry during a surge of immigration enforcement in his city.
Link to author Tyler Sit
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Tyler Sit
Pastor and author
Why storytelling is a spiritual practice
Telling stories isn’t just about consuming them; it begins with reverence and listening, says a professional storyteller.
Link to author Elizabeth Le’anani Coffee
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Elizabeth Le’anani Coffee
Managing director, Lake Institute on Faith and Giving
‘Becoming a Future-Ready Church: 8 Shifts to Encourage and Empower the Next Generation of Leaders’
A missiologist, a religion journalist and a church researcher write about one of the largest American churches in the 1960s in an excerpt from a recent book.
Daniel Yang
Adelle Banks
Warren Bird
When the power goes out, churches offer shelter through the Community Lighthouse network
New Orleans churches and community centers are being outfitted with backup and solar power to create a microgrid for residents during the city’s frequent outages. But that’s not the only value they offer.
Link to author Delaney Dryfoos
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Delaney Dryfoos
Journalist
Home by another way? How Epiphany can help us navigate today’s tensions
The Magi protected the Christ child by going home another way. What does that gesture mean in a world where millions of people are being displaced or deported?
Link to author Melissa Spas
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Melissa Spas
Nonprofit leader
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.
On Christmas Eve, Christ House marks four decades of providing healthcare for unhoused men
A Washington, D.C., nonprofit celebrates the 40th anniversary of its ministry of medical support, community building and leadership in the field.
Link to author Edie Gross
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Edie Gross
Journalist
I was slammed to the ground and arrested outside an ICE facility. It was a holy experience.
Internment sites are being operated across the country, writes a Chicago pastor. What we do with this knowledge tells us everything about the Christians we are.
Link to author Michael Woolf
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Michael Woolf
Senior minister, Lake Street Church of Evanston
