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An international religious order uses a teaching framework based on abundance, practice and peacemaking. Street Psalms offers a seminary, design studio and resources to its partners.
Link to author Cheston Knapp
While the Bible encourages us to be hospitable to strangers, the possibilities can be frightening. Some churches provide models for bringing people together beyond weekly services or liturgical ties.
Link to author Sarah E. Forsyth
We can look to faith communities that welcome people well for models of listening and speaking differently through ministry, writes an associate director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program.
Link to author Angel Eaglin
Rewatching a decade-old sitcom reminds us of hope in community and the value of local action, writes the director of communications for Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Emily Lund
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
A Texas congregation has formed itself and transformed a worn-down warehouse with art at the core of theology and community.
Link to author Lindsay Peyton
A multilingual congregation experiments with AI translation to improve communication in churches where people speak multiple languages, writes their pastor.
Link to author A. Trevor Sutton
When San Antonio’s Catholic Worker house grew from offering a feeding ministry to building affordable housing, its leader got help from a surprising source: a former administrator in the city department that had tried to shut it down.
Link to author Robyn Ross
Engaging in local politics helps avoid “political hobbyism” and focuses on the spaces most immediate to our lives.
Link to author Adam Joyce
In this excerpt, the author writes about his friend and mentor Allan Tibbels’ “gift of prophetic conscience” and how it drove his work to build Christian community in a marginalized neighborhood.
Link to author Mark R. Gornik
When the author got a second car, her life was much easier. But that convenience came at a cost — the small connections between people that build a sense of belonging.
Link to author Meagan Manas
