Healing our image of God
Our notions of God are inevitably colored by our wounds and constrained by the limits of what we imagine to be possible. It’s so easy to mistake the flood of self-rejecting voices for God’s voice.
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Growing beyond rage into hope and collective healing
The tragedies of the world provoke understandable rage. But focusing on existential gratitude and connection creates space for transformation, writes the director of the Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Alaina Kleinbeck
By Alaina Kleinbeck
Director, Thriving in Ministry Coordination Program
The parable of the shopping carts
After 18 months of trying to protect ourselves and others from COVID-19, our frustration with those who reject all measures is real, writes an editor of Faith & Leadership.
Link to author Aleta Payne
By Aleta Payne
Senior associate editor, Faith & Leadership
What Paul teaches us about coping with trauma
A clinical psychologist, poet and professor reads the letters of Paul through a psychological lens and identifies keys to his resilience and positive religious coping — and how those strategies might help Christians today.
Link to author Luis Cruz-Villalobos
By Luis Cruz-Villalobos
Author and clinical psychologist
Yolanda Pierce: Theology that starts with Black women is better for everyone
An everyday womanist theology is the focus of Pierce’s most recent book, “In My Grandmother’s House.”
The opportunity of fruitful fear
How we honor fear’s presence and consider its purpose can shift its role in our lives, writes the director of the Thriving Congregations Coordination Program at Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Kelly Ryan
By Kelly Ryan
Director, Thriving Congregations Coordination Program
The pastoral challenge of Christian nationalism
Pastors must present a more gripping vision of a beloved community to steer congregants away from the lies of Christian nationalism, says an author and activist.
Link to author Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
By Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Director, School for Conversion
Jacob Marques Rollison: Why Jacques Ellul is relevant today
With more modes of communication than ever, why are we still so divided? French theologian Jacques Ellul can point us toward an answer.
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By Jacob Marques Rollison
Scholar and translator
Gretchen E. Ziegenhals: Walking through closed doors this Easter -- the resurrection of the body
A year of suffering reminds us of Christ’s embodiment and of our own, writes a managing director of Leadership Education at Duke Divinity.
Link to author Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
By Gretchen E. Ziegenhals
Spiritual director and retreat leader
Michael Gienger and Julia Riley: Our congregation gladly scrambled to help during the Texas winter storm. But we shouldn’t have to do it again.
The deadly storm presents an opportunity for Lenten reflection, self-examination and confession, write two pastors who serve in a hard-hit community.
Michael Gienger
Julia Riley
We need to talk about white belief
If our efforts toward racial reconciliation in the United States are rooted in white belief, they will serve only to erase difference and center whiteness, says a professor.
Link to author Oluwatomisin Oredein
By Oluwatomisin Oredein
Professor, Brite Divinity School
