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TagsBreathing Space: One church’s experiment with guaranteed minimum income
A church offered a “guaranteed gift” of $500 per month for a year to two neighbor-partners as a way to respect recipients’ dignity and give them more agency.
![Rhonda Mawhood Lee](/sites/default/files/2022-09/Lee--author-photo.jpg)
A church offers training in faith and finance
Kingdom Fellowship AME Church helps its members thrive through financial literacy classes that help build economic stability and faithful generosity.
![Leslie Quander Wooldridge](/sites/default/files/2022-08/Quander-Wooldridge-m.jpg)
My ancestor was an enslaver. Here’s how I’m making reparations.
A graduate of Harvard Divinity School writes about her family’s history — which includes an ancestor active in the enslavement of Black people — and how she is taking reparative action.
![headshot of Morgan Curtis](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Curtis%20--%20Headshot.jpg)
Nonprofit helps churches increase social impact by leveraging their assets
The Oikos Institute for Social Impact helps BIPOC Christian leaders work together to develop a vision, identify existing resources and seek new sources of funding for ministries that serve their communities.
![Alison Bowen](/sites/default/files/2024-05/Alison-Bowen-bio.jpg)
‘When God’s Call Is Bigger Than a Building’
The Rev. Ashley Goff reflects on her congregation’s long — and sometimes contentious — process of building 173 apartments for low-income families, seniors and people with disabilities in this excerpt from “Gone for Good?”
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How the church can serve society by changing the way it handles property
As many as 100,000 buildings and billions of dollars in church-owned property are expected to be sold or repurposed by 2030. With planning and thoughtful stewardship, those assets can continue to serve communities, says Mark Elsdon, the editor of(active the new book, “Gone for Good?”
‘With God, later is not late’
A church-led community collaboration 20 years in the making has brought new affordable housing for seniors to Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Stained glass, steeples and financial sustainability
An effort to preserve Black churches is entering its next cycle under the direction of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund.
![Cynthia Greenlee](/sites/default/files/Cynthia-Greenlee_mug.jpg)
Having my student debt forgiven helps me believe there is another way
Instead of defaulting to individual responsibility, shouldn’t we forgive one another’s debts?
![Melissa Florer-Bixler](/sites/default/files/2021-07/MelissaFlorerBixler.jpg)
Dignity and respect are the key to a multimillion-dollar ministry supported by a successful thrift shop
Dorcas Ministries attracts hundreds of volunteers who work at its secondhand store — and believe in its larger mission as one of the region’s premier social welfare agencies.
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